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Introduction: Cutaneous Dendritic Cells: Distinctive Antigen-Presenting Cells for Experimental Models and Disease States

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The Immune Functions of Epidermal Langerhans Cells

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Abstract

Cutaneous dendritic cells, which include the Langerhans cells (LC) of the epidermis as well as their counterparts in the dermis and cutaneous lymph, have provided a rich area for investigative dermatology and immunology. The important starting points were the findings that LC are bone marrow-derived and have many properties of white blood cells such as binding of immune complexes, expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II products, and presentation of antigens to T cells. Much of this work is discussed in a compendium, Epidermal Langerhans Cells, edited by Dr. G. Schuler and published by CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL in 1991. Here, Dr. Heidrun Moll assembles an important series of articles that cover the latest, most timely developments.

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Steinman, R.M., Inaba, K., Schuler, G. (1995). Introduction: Cutaneous Dendritic Cells: Distinctive Antigen-Presenting Cells for Experimental Models and Disease States. In: The Immune Functions of Epidermal Langerhans Cells. Medical Intelligence Unit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22497-7_1

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