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Antigen presenting cells
Antigen presenting cells (APC) are a class of immune cells that mediate the immune response. APCs process foreign antigen and present the antigen to T cells, the immune cells with kill foreign cells. Several subsets of immune cells, including dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages are capable of serving as APCs.
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Immunology
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...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
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Immunology
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Written By:
Tara Fernandes
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Immunology
COVID symptoms. “As it is often the case for pathogenic infections, the host immune system is a key player in vira
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
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Drug Discovery & Development
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Immunology
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Heba El-wassef
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Cell & Molecular Biology
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...
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NOV 10, 2020
Immunology
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...
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Tara Fernandes
OCT 22, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
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...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 18, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
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...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
OCT 18, 2020
Cancer
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...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 11, 2020
Cancer
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...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 28, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
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...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 15, 2020
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...
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APR 29, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
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...
Written By:
Lawrence Renna
APR 13, 2020
Immunology
Macrophages are well-known defense cells of the immune system, responsible for utilizing the cellular breakdown process
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 11, 2020
Cancer
It is quite common in cancer therapies to see a drug or treatment that has been around for decades. New drugs are hard t
...
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Jasper Cantrell
APR 06, 2020
Immunology
Dendritic cells are the sentinels of the immune system and use their “tree-like” projections to prese
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAR 17, 2020
Immunology
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...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
FEB 02, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 26, 2019
Immunology
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 21, 2019
Cancer
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...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 08, 2019
Immunology
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 01, 2019
Clinical & Molecular DX
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...
Written By:
Nupur Srivastava