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IL-6 production may be a marker of a predominant THELPER2 cells responses or implicate macrophages as important antigen-presenting cells in generating the early mucosal lesions in pediatric IBD patients.
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Measles vaccine virus is likely to be taken up by specific cells responsible for virus uptake and presentation to the immune system (termed antigen-presenting cells or APCs).
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Even when antigens are ingested rather than injected, they are presented to the immune system in the wall of the gut and taken up by macrophages and other "antigen-presenting cells" which then circulate through the body, enabling the immune system to respond.
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A protein phosphatase in the lymphocyte is activated (when contacting the antigen-presenting cell)
Med Poster1992 1992
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Dendritic cells are immune cells; they function as antigen-presenting cells that can bring target antigen to naïve T cells and induce cancer-specific cellular immunity.
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"The Nanopatch targeted specific antigen-presenting cells found in a narrow layer just beneath the skin surface and as a result we used less than one-hundredth of the dose used by a needle while stimulating a comparable immune response," Prof Kendall said.
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"The Nanopatch targeted specific antigen-presenting cells found in a narrow layer just beneath the skin surface and as a result we used less than one hundredth of the dose used by a needle while stimulating a comparable immune response," Professor Kendall said.
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"The Nanopatch targeted specific antigen-presenting cells found in a narrow layer just beneath the skin surface and as a result we used less than one-hundredth of the dose used by a needle while stimulating a comparable immune response," Prof Kendall said.
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Hyphal extracts contain gliotoxin, an immunosuppressive mycotoxin, which induces apoptosis of antigen-presenting cells and inhibits transcription factor NF-κB
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Neelkamal Chaudhary et al. 2010
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Chu NQ, Yu S, Nish SA, Laufer TM, et al. (2009) Basophils function as antigen-presenting cells for an allergen-induced T helper type 2 response.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Neelkamal Chaudhary et al. 2010
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