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How T cells 'find' the right dendritic cell

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Naive T cells can spend hours 'sampling' dendritic cells before making a stable conjugate with a single dendritic cell. It is the antigen 'dose' that determines how long this process takes.

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Figure 1: A period of T cell motility precedes a period of stable interactions with DCs.

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