image: After chemical mutagen exposure, tumors developed on the skin of normal mice containing Langerhans cells (top panel), but not the skin of mice lacking Langerhans cells (bottom panel). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 06, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.G. Modi at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and colleagues, was titled, “Langerhans Cells Facilitate Epithelial DNA Damage and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.” view more
Credit: Photo by Renata Filler, Laboratory of Dr. Michael Girardi, Yale University.