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Acute Viral Respiratory Infection Rapidly Induces a CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion-like Phenotype.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Nov 2015
Erickson John J, Lu Pengcheng, Wen Sherry, Hastings Andrew K, Gilchuk Pavlo, Joyce Sebastian, Shyr Yu, Williams John V
Abstract excerpt
Acute viral infections typically generate functional effector CD8(+) T cells (TCD8) that aid in pathogen clearance. However, during acute viral lower respiratory infection, lung TCD8 are functionally impaired and do not optimally control viral replication. T cells also become unresponsive to Ag during chronic infections and cancer via signaling by inhibitory receptors such as programmed cell death-1 (PD-1). PD-1...
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