Gene expression comparison among spleen dendritic cells, brain microglia, brain dendritic cells and bone marrow monocytes

To understand the functional relationship between brain dendritic cells (brain DCs) and other myeloid cells, we compared the gene expression profile of m/chDCs to that of bone marrow monocytes, brain microglia and classical spleen CD8+ and CD8- DCs. In order to obtain enough brain DCs for mRNA extraction, we expanded brain DCs with in vivo Flt3L treatment before purification.

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Anandasabapathy N, Victora GD, Meredith M, Feder R, Dong B, Kluger C, Yao K, Dustin ML, Nussenzweig MC, Steinman RM, Liu K