Dendritic cells ensure immune tolerance

Monday, March 16, 2009 - 18:56 in Biology & Nature

Dendritic cells are essential to the body's immune defenses. Now, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) researchers show that they also have to protect the body from itself: They help to identify any immune cells that attack the body's own tissue and need to be destroyed or pacified.

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