First evidence of native dendritic cells in brain

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Immunity inside. The brains population of immunity-directing dendritic cells (green and yellow) can be seen here in the subventricular zone an area of postnatal neuron development.
Immunity inside. The brain's population of immunity-directing dendritic cells (green and yellow) can be seen here in the subventricular zone — an area of postnatal neuron development.

In a finding that has the potential to change the way researchers think about the brain, scientists at Rockefeller University have found dendritic cells where they’ve never been seen before: among this organ’s neurons and connective cells.


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