Isolation and characterization of dendritic cells and macrophages from the mouse intestine

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 63, 2012, Pages 1-

  Geem, Duke ^a   Medina Contreras, Oscar ^a   Kim, Wooki ^a   Huang, Clifton S ^a   Denning, Timothy L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

APCs; Cell culture; Dendritic cells; Immunology; Intestine; Issue 63; Macrophages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863751068     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4040     Document Type: Article

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