Identification of heterogeneous subtypes of human dendritic cells from the lymph nodes of patients with gastric cancer

Objective

The subtypes of heterogeneous conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) and plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) in lymph nodes (LN) cannot be distinguished because they share similar surface markers. This study aimed to identify cDCs, pDCs, and other cell types in DC-enriched LNs from patients with gastric cancer (GC) by analyzing surface markers and gene expression.