Priming of myelin-specific T cells in the absence of dendritic cells results in accelerated development of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

• Thaiphi Luu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thaiphi Luu, Julie F. Cheung

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Julie F. Cheung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thaiphi Luu, Julie F. Cheung

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1346-0930

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• Jennifer Baccon,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Current address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, Ohio, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Hanspeter Waldner

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hwaldner@gmx.us

  Current address: BlueRock Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7844-1162

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