Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 106321, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/106321
Review Article

Physiological Role of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells and Their Potential Use in Cancer Immunity

1Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, 13400 E. Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA
2Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA

Received 20 August 2008; Accepted 12 October 2008

Academic Editor: Michel Goldman

Copyright © 2008 Jorge Schettini and Pinku Mukherjee. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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