Thursday, September 23, 2010

These dendritic cells are fishy, but that"s a good thing.

Scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine discovered that they can study the cells in zebrafish to study the complexities of the human immune system. The study was headed by David Traver with colleagues in UCSD's Division of Biological Sciences and at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. The cells that were found in the zebrafish are called Dendritic cells. The Dendritic cells from a link between innate and adaptive immune systems in mammals. Dendritic cells and adaptive responses are very common in mammals, but it wasn"t clear as to whether these cellsexisted in no-mammalian vertabrates. Finding DCs in zebrafish is just another step in investigating the mammalian immune system. The zebrafish can be used as another model.
I wish I would have choosen another article this is so boring. Other than the article being boring overall it was decent. This article was full of knowledge that a lot if Americans probably don't know exist. This article is well written but i believe who ever wrote the article needs to dumb it down a little bit. I found it pretyy cool that zebrafish are translucent!

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