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Interdigitating Dendritic Cell
A dendritic cell found in the paracortex that captures blood-borne antigens in peripheral tissues and transports them to the periarteriolar lymphoid sheath where initial B and T cell activation takes place. These cells play an important role in cellular immunity. (NCI Thesaurus)
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