image: In this epidermal sheet, the extended dendritic processes of Langerhans cells (blue) are seemingly adjacent to basal keratinocytes that show DNA damage (red) following exposure to chemical mutagen. 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 Julia Lewis, Laboratory of Dr. Michael Girardi, Yale University.