February 4, 2002The Journal of Experimental Medicine278 citationsOpen Access
Dendritic and Natural Killer Cells Cooperate in the Control/Switch of Innate Immunity
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Abstract
Twenty years ago, R. Steinman and colleagues established that dendritic cells (DCs) have unique capacities to prime naive T cells and that DC maturation is the checkpoint for the initiation of adaptive immune responses (11–32). In the mid-1990s, C. Janeway pointed out the pivotal role of