Dendritic cells fractalkine expressed

Kanazawa, N., Nakamura, T., Tashiro, K., Muramatsu, M., Moritta, K., Yoneda, K., Inaba, K., Imamura, S., and Honjo, T. (1999). Fractalkine and macrophage-derived chemokine T cell-attracting chemokines expressed in T cell area dendritic cells. Eur. J. Immunol. 29, 1925-1932. 

Papadopoulos EJ, Sassetti C, Saeki H et al. Fractalkine, a CX3C chemokine, is expressed by dendritic cells and is up-regulated upon dendritic cell maturation. Eur J Immunol 1999 29(8) 2551-9. 

Kanazawa N, Nakamura T, Tashiro K et al. Fractalkine and macrophage-derived chemokine T cell-attracting chemokines expressed in T cell area dendritic cells. Eur J Immunol 1999 29(6) 1925-32. 

Fractalkine is constitutively expressed in dendritic cells and upregulated upon dendritic cell maturation (Kanazawa et al, 1999). This suggests that fractalkine plays an important role in the intercellular communications during immune reactions. 

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