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Endothelial cells lining the blood vessels form a barrier between circulating immune cells and parenchymal tissue. While the molecular mechanisms involved in antigen-independent recruitment of leukocytes into infected tissue have been extensively studied, the mechanisms involving antigen-specific recruitment of T cells into tissue have remained largely elusive. Here I shall review the experimental evidence that endothelial cells function as antigen-presenting cells and in this function contribute first to regulation of immune responses and second, to antigen-specific recruitment of T cells.
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Knolle, P.A. (2006). Cognate Interaction Between Endothelial Cells and T Cells. In: Gundelfinger, E.D., Seidenbecher, C.I., Schraven, B. (eds) Cell Communication in Nervous and Immune System. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/400_018
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