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.