Single-cell technologies have enabled extensive profiling studies of human and mouse tissues and the identification of an ever-growing number of transcriptional clusters within the dendritic cell (DC) lineage. Here, we discuss the importance of differentiating cell subsets from cell states when annotating DC clusters and propose a revised nomenclature of the DC lineage that integrates experimentally validated knowledge and unbiased transcriptomic profiling results.
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Ginhoux, F., Guilliams, M. & Merad, M. Expanding dendritic cell nomenclature in the single-cell era. Nat Rev Immunol 22, 67–68 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-022-00675-7
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