PMID- 33481643 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211025 LR - 20220204 IS - 1545-3278 (Electronic) IS - 0732-0582 (Linking) VI - 39 DP - 2021 Apr 26 TI - Dendritic Cells Revisited. PG - 131-166 LID - 10.1146/annurev-immunol-061020-053707 [doi] AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) possess the ability to integrate information about their environment and communicate it to other leukocytes, shaping adaptive and innate immunity. Over the years, a variety of cell types have been called DCs on the basis of phenotypic and functional attributes. Here, we refocus attention on conventional DCs (cDCs), a discrete cell lineage by ontogenetic and gene expression criteria that best corresponds to the cells originally described in the 1970s. We summarize current knowledge of mouse and human cDC subsets and describe their hematopoietic development and their phenotypic and functional attributes. We hope that our effort to review the basic features of cDC biology and distinguish cDCs from related cell types brings to the fore the remarkable properties of this cell type while shedding some light on the seemingly inordinate complexity of the DC field. FAU - Cabeza-Cabrerizo, Mar AU - Cabeza-Cabrerizo M AD - Immunobiology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom; email: caetano@crick.ac.uk. FAU - Cardoso, Ana AU - Cardoso A AD - Immunobiology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom; email: caetano@crick.ac.uk. FAU - Minutti, Carlos M AU - Minutti CM AD - Immunobiology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom; email: caetano@crick.ac.uk. FAU - Pereira da Costa, Mariana AU - Pereira da Costa M AD - Immunobiology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom; email: caetano@crick.ac.uk. FAU - Reis e Sousa, Caetano AU - Reis e Sousa C AD - Immunobiology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom; email: caetano@crick.ac.uk. LA - eng GR - WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom GR - CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom GR - MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20210122 PL - United States TA - Annu Rev Immunol JT - Annual review of immunology JID - 8309206 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Lineage MH - *Dendritic Cells MH - Humans MH - *Immunity, Innate MH - Mice OTO - NOTNLM OT - Langerhans cells OT - adaptive immunity OT - dendritic cells OT - innate immunity OT - monocytes OT - myelopoiesis EDAT- 2021/01/23 06:00 MHDA- 2021/10/26 06:00 CRDT- 2021/01/22 17:11 PHST- 2021/01/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/10/26 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/01/22 17:11 [entrez] AID - 10.1146/annurev-immunol-061020-053707 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Annu Rev Immunol. 2021 Apr 26;39:131-166. doi: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-061020-053707. Epub 2021 Jan 22.