#IMMUNITY | A TAXONOMICAL RETHINK 🤔 | Reclassifying #Plasmacytoid #Dendritic #Cells as# #Innate #Lymphocytes | 🗣
"With respect to their ontogeny, emerging data support a lymphoid origin of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs), which seem to share a developmental trajectory with B cells. By contrast, conventional dendritic cells (DCs) have a myeloid origin in the common dendritic cell progenitor.
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