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Nature Immunology 9, 584 - 586 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ni0608-584

Homeostasis of dendritic cell pool in lymphoid organs

Cedric Auffray1, Yalin Emre1 & Frederic Geissmann1

  1. Laboratory of Biology of the Mononuclear Phagocyte System, INSERM U838, Institut Fédératif de Recherche Necker–Enfants Malades, Université Paris-Descartes, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris, France. e-mail: geissmann@necker.fr


A new study finds that local homeostatic expansion of conventional dendritic cells in the spleen is regulated by Fms-related tyrosine kinase-3 ligand.

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