Abstract
Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen-presenting cells that recognize and phagocytose pathogens, and help to orchestrate adaptive immune responses to combat them. DCs are abundant in the skin where Borrelia burgdorferi first enters the body during a tick bite, and are thus critical in determining the initial stages of the innate and adaptive immune responses against Borrelia. Here, we describe two methods to study the response of DCs to Borrelia; an in vitro approach using monocyte-derived DCs (moDCs) and an ex vivo approach using a human skin model.
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We are very grateful to Ard Nijhof for providing I. ricinus salivary gland extract, Justin Radolf and Juan Salazar for providing frozen Treponema pallidum, and Henry de Vries for providing human syphilitic serum for the experiments shown in Fig. 1. This work was supported by a “Veni” grant (91611065) from JWH received from The Netherlands Organisation for health research and development (ZonMw).
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Mason, L.M.K., Hovius, J.W.R. (2018). Investigating Human Dendritic Cell Immune Responses to Borrelia burgdorferi . In: Pal, U., Buyuktanir, O. (eds) Borrelia burgdorferi. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1690. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7383-5_21
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