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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Gene profiling of immune communications

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010903-02

Published

3 September 2001

Dendritic cells (DC) recognize invading bacteria and rapidly activate T cell responses through a number of molecular events that remain incompletely understood. In September Nature Immunology, Francesca Granucci and colleagues from University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy show that early after bacterial stimulation dendritic cells provide activation signals by expression of interleukin 2 (IL-2)— a key signaling molecule that may greatly enhance both T and B cell responses.

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