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Long-term outcomes in patients with metastatic melanoma vaccinated with melanoma peptide-pulsed CD34+ progenitor-derived dendritic cells
Between March 1999 and May 2000, 18 HLA-A*0201+ patients with metastatic melanoma were enrolled in a phase I trial using a dendritic cell (DC) vaccine generated by culturing CD34+ hematopoietic progenitors. This ...
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In Vitro Regulation of Dendritic Cell Development and Function
Human and murine dendritic cells (DC) can now be generated in vitro in large numbers by culturing progenitor cells. The establishment of such culture systems will allow clarification of the relationship between d...
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Regulation of Peripheral B-Cell Growth and Differentiation
The life histories of B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes share many similar features. They derive from immature precursor cells and use similar genes and strategy to encode, assemble, and select their surface ant...
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Inhibitory Effect of IL-10 on Human Langerhans Cell Antigen Presenting Function
IL-10 has been previously described by Mossman and coworkers as a product of murine Th2 clones that inhibits the production of cytokines by Thl clones (1). Accumulated evidence now indicate that this cytokine ...
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Human Dendritic Cells Can Drive CD40-Activated slgD+ B Cells to Mount Mucosal-Type Humoral Response
Following tissue injury, invading antigens are captured by dendritic cells (DC) which migrate to secondary lymphoid organs where they initiate immune responses that involve triads composed of T cells, B cells ...
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Human Follicular Dendritic Cells Promote Both Proliferation and Differentiation of CD40 Activated B Cells
Follicular dendritic cells (FDCs) are unique stromal cells within the germinal centers, where intensive B cell proliferation was identified. The main feature of these cells is their capacity to trap antigenant...
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Activation of Primary Allogeneic CD8+ T Cells by Dendritic Cells Generated in Vitro from CD34+ Cord Blood Progenitor Cells
Dendritic cells (DC) have been shown to be the most potent antigen presenting cells (APC). Due to the difficulty to obtain large numbers of mature dendritic cells, several groups have developed ways to generat...
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Human Dendritic Cells Enhance Growth and Differentiation of CD40 Activated B Cells
During an immune response, dendritic cells (DC) capture the antigen at site of injury, and migrate through the afferent lymph stream to the lymph-nodes where they efficiently activate naive T cells. This T cel...
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Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGFβ) Directs IgA1 and IgA2 Switching in Human Naive B Cells
Until recently, there was no experimental system that permitted the study of soluble factors capable of inducing human B lymphocytes to switch isotypes in vitro. Unlike lipopolysaccharide which is currently used ...