Currently, I am planning to work on Dendritic cells in Hepatitis virus Infection, so can you suggest books which could help me in Dendritic cells biology and development and subset identification.............etc.
Thanks in advance,
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I would suggest you some reviews from Prof. Steinman RM. Good luck with the experiments!.
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These two publications below really helped me learn the basics. There are many more by the authors listed here. Please check them out.
Good luck
Banchereau, J. & Steinman, R.M. Dendritic cells and the control of immunity. Nature 392, 245-252 (1998).
Sallusto, F. & Lanzavecchia, A. Mobilizing dendritic cells for tolerance, priming, and chronic inflammation. The Journal of experimental medicine 189, 611-614 (1999)
DENDRITICS the company that has specialized in markers of dendritic cells, sought to identify publications on different populations of dendritic cells.
Many of these markers was introduced to "Dardilly LIR" by big names of the dendritic cell: Banchereau, Steinman, Romani, Shortman ...
You can find all this information on the site www.dendritics.net
There aren't a great many DC textbooks around. The most prominent one that I can think of is Dendritic Cell Protocols (http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781607614203). Immunological Reviews also did a Special Issue on Dendritic Cell Subsets a few years back (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imr.2010.234.issue-1/issuetoc), though you should be aware that there have been some major developments since then, most notably being the controversy regarding the existence of MDP (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25035955). The field is slowing down a bit at present, since the big DC players appear to have shifted their focus to macrophages. Still, Bernard Malissen and Sandrine Henri maintain a presence, and I would recommend their reviews (e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24854591) for an introduction into DC biology.
It is worth pointing out that, outside of the primary and secondary lymphoid organs, the DC field has largely focused on the skin and gut in the past. Dendritic cells in the liver have not received anywhere near as much attention. Equivalence in DC biology between different tissues is most definitely not assured.
Best of luck.