Dendritic cells in central nervous system autoimmunity
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- 作者：Christopher Sie ; Thomas Korn
- 关键词：Dendritic cells ; T helper cells ; Central nervous system ; Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis ; Multiple sclerosis
- 刊名：Seminars in Immunopathology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：39
- 期：2
- 页码：99-111
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- 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
- 刊物主题：Immunology; Internal Medicine;
- 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- ISSN：1863-2300
- 卷排序：39
文摘
Dendritic cells (DCs) operate at the intersection of the innate and adaptive immune systems. DCs can promote or inhibit adaptive immune responses against neuroantigens. While DC intrinsic properties, i.e., their maturation state or the subset they belong to, are important determinants of the outcome of an autoimmune reaction, tissue-specific cues might also be relevant for the function of DCs. Thus, a better understanding of the performance of distinct DC subsets in specific anatomical niches, not only in lymphoid tissue but also in non-lymphoid tissues such as the meninges, the choroid plexus, and the inflamed CNS parenchyma, will be instrumental for the design of immune intervention strategies to chronic inflammatory diseases that do not put at risk basic surveillance functions of the immune system in the CNS. Here, we will review modern concepts of DC biology in steady state and during autoimmune neuroinflammation.