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An intense form of homeostatic proliferation of naive CD8+ cells driven by IL-2.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 6 Aug 2007
Cho Jae-Ho, Boyman Onur, Kim Hee-Ok, Hahm Bumsuk, Rubinstein Mark P, Ramsey Chris, Kim David M, Surh Charles D, Sprent Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
In conditions of T lymphopenia, interleukin (IL) 7 levels rise and, via T cell receptor for antigen-self-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) interaction, induce residual naive T cells to proliferate. This pattern of lymphopenia-induced "homeostatic" proliferation is typically quite slow and causes a gradual increase in total T cell numbers and differentiation into cells with features of memory cells. In...
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