{"term":{"id":"13156","title":"follicular dendritic cell","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - follicular dendritic cell","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.13156","code":"13156","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-negative Fc receptor-positive dendritic cell which bears immune complexes on its surface and is probably involved in the generation of antibody-secreting cells and maintenance of B-cell memory (see memory cell) in germinal centers.","notes":{"1":"This is a different cell type from the dendritic cell."},"links":[{"term":"B-cell","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12937"},{"term":"Fc receptor","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13138"},{"term":"Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13432"},{"term":"dendritic cell","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13087"},{"term":"germinal centers","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13172"},{"term":"immune complexes","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13257"},{"term":"memory cell","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13452"}],"sources":["PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1166 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-11-06-03)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13156\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13156\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13156\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'follicular dendritic cell' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.13156","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-13T23:55:50+00:00"}}