作者: Antonio Lanzavecchia , Federica Sallusto
DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.290.5489.92
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摘要: The immune response is initiated in organized lymphoid tissues where antigen-loaded dendritic cells (DCs) encounter antigen-specific T cells. DCs function as packets of information that must be decoded by the cell before an appropriate can mounted. We discuss how dynamics DC-T and mechanism differentiation make decoding this stochastic rather than determinate. This results generation both terminally differentiated effector intermediates play distinctive roles protection, immunoregulation, immunological memory.