Article
The clinical importance of CD4+ CD7- in human diseases.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 Feb 2019
Haftcheshmeh Saeed Mohammadian, Tajbakhsh Amir, Kazemi Mohaddese, Esmaeili Seyed-Alireza, Mardani Fatemeh, Fazeli Mostafa, Sahebkar Amirhossein
Abstract excerpt
The CD7 antigen is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily that expresses on the surface of all thymocytes, a majority of mature T cells, and also natural killer cells. Interestingly, under physiological and different pathological conditions, the loss of CD7 antigen occurred in the subset of CD4+ memory T cells. Various functions have been proposed for CD7, including its role in the activation and...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, CD7
- Apoptosis
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes
- Humans
- Inflammation
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating
- Neoplasms
- Phenotype
- Signal Transduction
- Tumor Escape
