dendritic cell

American  

noun

1. a branching cell of the lymph nodes, blood, and spleen that functions as a network trapping foreign protein.

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dendritic cell Scientific  

/ dĕn-drĭt′ĭk /

1. A highly specialized white blood cell found in the skin, mucosa, and lymphoid tissues that initiates a primary immune response by activating lymphocytes and secreting cytokines.

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Example Sentences

If the binding was too weak, the parental cell moved away from the dendritic cell and experienced its own dysfunction.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Locke and colleagues designed a dendritic cell vaccine targeting a protein called survivin and tested this vaccine in a phase I clinical trial involving 13 patients with multiple myeloma.

From Science Daily • Sep. 22, 2023

Kat Goodsell, a friend and neighbour, found out about dendritic cell vaccines.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2023

T. gondii parasitizes the dendritic cell and tells it to migrate, hitching a ride on its back.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2022

Immunity can be acquired in an active or passive way, is the role of the dendritic cell in infection by HIV? and it can be natural or artificial.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013