Research progress on dendritic cell in immune tolerance of organ transplantation

Dendritic cell (DC) is professional antigen presenting cell with specific functions. DC can specifically phagocytize antigen, and process and deliver to effector T cell, which play an important role in immune tolerance and immune response. Tolerance DC (tol-DC) is a group of DC with negative immune regulatory function, which can induce immune tolerance of organ transplantation through central and peripheral mechanism. In this article, the phenotype and functional characteristics of DC, mechanism of immune tolerance induced by DC, and the application of tol-DC in organ transplantation of DC were summarized, aiming to provide basic theoretical support for clinical translational medicine research.