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Homeostasis and immunological function of self-driven memory-phenotype CD4+ T lymphocytes.
Immunological medicine - 1 Mar 2023
Kawabe Takeshi
Abstract excerpt
CD4+ T lymphocytes play an essential role in adaptive immune responses. In pathogen infection, naïve CD4+ T cells that strongly respond to foreign antigens robustly proliferate to differentiate into effector/memory cells, contributing to elimination of the pathogen concerned. In addition to this conventional T cell activation pathway, naïve T cells can also weakly respond to self antigens in the periphery to...
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