Extrathymic CD4+CD8+ lymphocytes in Chagas disease: possible relationship with an immunoendocrine imbalance

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Double-positive (DP) CD4(+) CD8(+) T cells normally represent a thymic subpopulation that is developed in the thymus as a precursor of CD4(+) or CD8(+) single-positive T cells. Recent evidence has shown that DP cells with an activated phenotype can be tracked in secondary lymph organs. The detection of an activated DP population in the periphery, a population that expresses T cell receptors unselected during...

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