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Antigen presentation in the form of an immunological synapse between dendritic cell and t cell, love is in the air

Immunological Synapse

In an immunological synapse the membrane between the antigen presenting cell (APC) and the t cell touch. They exchange signals so the APC can present an antigen to the t cell. In this case the APC is a dendritic cell that has the right antigen for the t cell and love is in the air.

Here is a picture from the wikipedia article about the immunological synapse between Jurkat T cell expressing GFP-actin (green) and Raji B cell stained with CMAC (blue).

 

 

If you want to learn more about immunological synapse here is a publication:
The immunological synapse, Cancer Immunol Res. 2014 Nov; 2(11): 1023–1033.