Dendritic cell homeostasis
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are a heterogeneous fraction of rare hematopoietic cells that coevolved with the formation of the adaptive immune system. DCs efficiently process and present antigen, move from sites of antigen uptake to sites of cellular interactions, and are critical in the initiation of immune responses as well as in the maintenance of self-tolerance. DCs are distributed throughout the body and are enriched in lymphoid organs and environmental contact sites. Steady-state DC half-lives account for days to up to a few weeks, and they need to be replaced via proliferating hematopoietic progenitors, monocytes, or tissue resident cells. In this review, we integrate recent knowledge on DC progenitors, cytokines, and transcription factor usage to an emerging concept of in vivo DC homeostasis in steady-state and inflammatory conditions. We furthermore highlight how knowledge of these maintenance mechanisms might impact on understanding of DC malignancies as well as posttransplant immune reactions and their respective therapies.
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STAT3 plays major roles in immature dendritic cell development and function, affecting both plasmacytoid DCs and conventional DCs.
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The ‘Transcription factors in DC development’ section reports that STAT3 affects Flt3L-mediated development of both plasmacytoid DCs and other DCs. It does not establish a role in immature DC function, and it specifies that STAT3 deficiency does not block GM-CSF-mediated DC development. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Merad, M., & Manz, M. G.
- Affiliations
- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine and Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY;
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (CH)
- ORCID
- Manz, Markus G.
- Venue
- Blood
- Publisher
- American Society of Hematology
- Published
- 2009-04-09
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 3418-3427
- ISSN
- 0006-4971 (ISSN-L)
- 1528-0020
- PMC
- PMC2668851
- OpenAlex
- W1988136067
- Cited by
- 395
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- FWCI
- 4.59
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2159/2)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (116637, 310000)
- National Institutes of Health
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA1121100)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI0086899)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune Response and Inflammation
- Keywords
- dendritic cells, dendritic cell homeostasis, dendritic cell progenitors, monocytes, cytokines, transcription factors, inflammatory diseases, antigen presentation, self-tolerance
- MeSH terms
- Dendritic Cells, Homeostasis, Humans, Transplantation Immunology
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