The Scientist : Axon molecule mediates immune response [15/4/2002]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020415-02

15 April 2002

Primary immune responses rely upon the successful contact between dendritic cells (DCs) and resting T cells, but exactly which molecules are involved in this process remains unknown. In April 15 online Nature Immunology, Rafaèle Tordjman and colleagues from Institut Cochin, Paris, show that neuropilin-1 mediates interactions between DCs and T cells that are essential for initiation of the primary immune responses.

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