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Tuesday, 15 July 2014

History.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendritic_cell

Dendritic cells were first described by Paul Langerhans (hence "Langerhans cells") in the late nineteenth century. The term "dendritic cells" was coined in 1973 by Ralph M. Steinman and Zanvil A. Cohn.For discovering the central role of dendritic cells in the adaptive immune response,Steinman was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2007 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2011.

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