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Langerhans cells

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==== Present view ====
On 4 March 2007 the online ''Nature Medicine'' magazine published the letter "Langerin is a natural barrier to HIV-1 transmission by Langerhans cells."<ref>{{REFjournal |last=De Witte |first=Lot |init=L |last2=Nabatov |first2=Alexey |init2=A |last3=Pion |first3=Marjorie |init3=M |last4=Fluitsma |first4=Donna |init4=D |last5=De Jong |first5=Marein A.W.P. |init5=MAWP |last6=De Gruijl |first6=Tanja |init6=T |last7=Piguet |first7=Vincent |init7=V |last8=Van Kooyk |first8=Yvette |init8=Y |last9=Geijtenbeek |first9=Teunis B.H. |init9=TBH |title=Langerin is a natural barrier to HIV-1 transmission by Langerhans cells |journal=Nature Medicine |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=367-371 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nm1541 |quote= |pubmedID=17334373 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1038/nm1541 |date=DeWitte etal 2007-03-04 |accessdate=2019-10-19}}</ref> One of the authors of the study, Teunis Geijtenbeek, said that "Langerin is able to scavenge viruses from the surrounding environment, thereby preventing infection" and "since generally all tissues on the outside of our bodies have Langerhans cells, we think that the human body is equipped with an antiviral defense mechanism, destroying incoming viruses."<ref>{{REFnews
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