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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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AUG 24, 2016
Immunology
The symptoms of poison ivy rashes and other skin conditions are commonly known. For poison ivy, it’s a painful and
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 18, 2016
Immunology
For the first time in a human tumor, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania h
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 12, 2016
Microbiology
Can you imagine eating Escherichia coli for good health? It seems a little crazy, but scientists have created a way to a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 06, 2016
Videos
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are a recently described family of lymphoid effector cells with important roles in immunolo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 21, 2016
Videos
Our bodies have to use barriers to protect us from our environment at all times. In the gut mucosa, special cells reinfo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 01, 2016
Immunology
The 1990s was an exciting time for cancer research, as scientists genetically engineered the very first chimeric antigen
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 26, 2016
Health & Medicine
All antihistamine drugs on the market today block only the H1 receptor, but there are three more histamine receptors tha
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 11, 2016
Immunology
B cells, which are mostly known for antibody production in the face of invading pathogens, provide another function in t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 29, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Ebola infection and transmission caused a huge international health crisis in 2015 in West Africa, the site of the large
...
APR 19, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers from Augusta University found that E. coli helps curb a sweet tooth. The group found that, in mice, administ
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
APR 18, 2016
Immunology
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease that revolves around the immune system’s error
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 11, 2016
Immunology
If you thought finding a needle in a haystack was hard, try maneuvering a T lymphocyte through the “three-dimensio
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 09, 2016
Videos
While humans share many similarities, we don't all have the same blood. Knowing your blood type is vital if you need a b
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAR 18, 2016
Immunology
How are macrophage immune cells activated during an inflammatory response when pathogens invade? Scientists thought they
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 06, 2016
Immunology
Herpes simplex 1 virus, the microscopic pathogen notoriously remembered for its production of painful and unappealing co
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 12, 2016
Immunology
Immune cells are not predestined to be either effector or memory cells, scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Insti
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 04, 2016
Immunology
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway, discovered in 2008 to promote type 1 interferon production in respon
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 19, 2015
Immunology
Dendritic cells use phagocytosis to break up molecules from pathogens to present on their cell surface to warn other lym
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 14, 2015
Immunology
Studies have shown that early exposure to farm animals reduces the risk of children developing atopic diseases, but scie
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 02, 2015
Immunology
B-cell leukemia occurs in 80-85 percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 07, 2015
Immunology
Scientists from the University of Freiburg published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine their findings of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 29, 2015
Cancer
UC San Francisco scientists have developed a molecular “on switch” enabling tight control over the acti
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 13, 2015
Cancer
Three researchers won prestigious medical awards for a new approach to treating cancer and insights into how creatures d
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 13, 2015
Cancer
A team at the University of Pennsylvania reported that a multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped respondi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider