T lymphocyte

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T lymphocyte

[¦tē ′lim·fə‚sīt]

(immunology)

T cell

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Laboratory control values for CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes.

Establishment of T-lymphocyte subset reference intervals in a healthy adult population in Chennai, India

The most important effectors of the cell-mediated immune response, cytotoxic T lymphocytes, are the main immune cells that recognize foreign antigens on the surface of infected "self" cells.

Emerging infections and pregnancy

At 3 days postinfection, neither DEP exposure nor Listeria infection resulted in significant changes in T lymphocytes when compared with the air-exposed, noninfected control (data not shown).

Alteration of pulmonary immunity to Listeria monocytogenes by diesel exhaust particles (DEPs). II. Effects of DEPs on T-cell-mediated immune responses in rats. (Research)

It contributes to the development of T lymphocytes, guard cells that participate in immune system reactions.

Thymus: Master Gland of Immunity

Primary induction of human CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes and interferon-gamma-producing T cells after smallpox vaccination.

Flow cytometry and T-cell response monitoring after smallpox vaccination

Rotavirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes appear at the intestinal mucosal surface after rotavirus infection.

Vaccines for mucosal immunity to combat emerging infectious diseases

To create these killer cells, the team from the RIKEN Research Centre for Allergy and Immunology first had to reprogram T lymphocytes specialized in killing a certain type of cancer, into iPS cells.

Cancer-killing technology from induced stem cells created

Association of depression with viral load, CD8 T lymphocytes, and natural killer cells in women with HIV infection.

Chronically depressed women with HIV almost twice as likely as others to die from AIDS-related causes; those with mental-health services had half the death rate of those without

T Lymphocytes as a Biological Calibrator, Cytometry 33, 123-132 (1998).

Quantitating fluorescence intensity from fluorophores: practical use of MESF values

For example, 25 people taking only the experimental drug had an average increase of nearly 18 CD4 T lymphocytes per month.

The cortisol connection: does a stress hormone play a role in AIDS?

These white cells of the variety known as T lymphocytes, or simply T-cells, were removed earlier and treated so that they contain good copies of the ADA gene for making the crucial enzyme that the girl lacks.

Curing disease through human gene therapy

The evaluation of the proportion of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, macrophages, T lymphocytes, and B lymphocytes, as well the relative proportion of neovascularization in skin tissue specimens, was determined by quantitative image analysis (22).