ReviewMicrobial pathogenesis2013
Dendritic cells and vaccine design for sexually-transmitted diseases.
Review in Microbial pathogenesis, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dendritic cells in the human vaginal mucosa can direct CD4Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- (Not) Home alone: Antigen presenting cell - T Cell communication in barrier tissues.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- Differential expression of nuclear hormone receptors by dendritic cell subsets in human vaginal mucosa and skin.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Targeting human langerin promotes HIV-1 specific humoral immune responses.PLoS pathogens · 2021Article
- Dendritic cells from the human female reproductive tract rapidly capture and respond to HIV.Mucosal immunology · 2017Article
- A Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Deleted for Glycoprotein D Enables Dendritic Cells to Activate CD4Frontiers in immunology · 2017Article
- The HPV16 E7 Oncoprotein Disrupts Dendritic Cell Function and Induces the Systemic Expansion of CD11b(+)Gr1(+) Cells in a Transgenic Mouse Model.BioMed research international · 2016Article
- Transcriptional fingerprints of antigen-presenting cell subsets in the human vaginal mucosa and skin reflect tissue-specific immune microenvironments.Genome medicine · 2014Article
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Abstract
Dendritic cells (DCs) are major antigen presenting cells (APCs) that can initiate and control host immune responses toward either immunity or tolerance. These features of DCs, as immune orchestrators, are well characterized by their tissue localizations as well as by their subset-dependent functional specialties and plasticity. Thus, the level of protective immunity to invading microbial pathogens can be dependent on the subsets of DCs taking up microbial antigens and their functional plasticity in response to microbial products, host cellular components and the cytokine milieu in the microenvironment. Vaccines are the most efficient and cost-effective preventive medicine against infectious diseases. However, major challenges still remain for the diseases caused by sexually-transmitted pathogens, including HIV, HPV, HSV and Chlamydia. We surmise that the establishment of protective immunity in the female genital mucosa, the major entry and transfer site of these pathogens, will bring significant benefit for the protection against sexually-transmitted diseases. Recent progresses made in DC biology suggest that vaccines designed to target proper DC subsets may permit us to establish protective immunity in the female genital mucosa against sexually-transmitted pathogens.
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