image: This is a platelet/plasmacytoid dendritic cell aggregate. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 1, 2010, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Pierre Duffau of CNRS in Bordeaux, France, and colleagues, is titled, "Platelet CD154 Potentiates Interferon-Alpha Secretion by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Pierre Duffau