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ReviewImmunologic research2008

The effector to memory transition of CD4 T cells.

K Kai McKinstry, Tara M Strutt, Susan L Swain

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Review in Immunologic research, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

K Kai McKinstryTrudeau Institute, 154 Algonquin Ave, Saranac Lake, NY 12983, USA. kmckinstry@trudeauinstitute.org
Tara M Strutt
Susan L Swain

Funding

T cell memory to TB in the lungP01AI046530 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI SWAIN, SUSAN L · 1999 to 2013
$22.2M
NIAID NIH HHS AI-46530
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The small number of antigen-specific memory CD4 T cells surviving long-term after antigen or pathogen challenge are often characterized by a surprising degree of phenotypic and functional heterogeneity. We here propose that the immune system has evolved to express this diversity in memory T-cell populations, in order to provide flexibility in recall responses, via a rapid transition from heterogeneous effector cells into correspondingly heterogeneous memory cells. Little attention has been paid to another important transition-from resting memory cell to re-activated effector. We would suggest that superior functional attributes of secondary effectors arising from memory CD4 T cells, as compared to primary effectors arising from naïve precursors, play an important and underappreciated role in protective secondary immune responses.

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Adoptive TransferAnimalsAntigens, CDCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationCell SurvivalCytokinesHumansImmunologic MemoryImmunophenotypingLymphocyte ActivationLymphocyte CooperationMiceMice, Inbred BALB CReceptors, Lymphocyte HomingT-Lymphocyte SubsetsAntigens, CDCytokinesReceptors, Lymphocyte Homing

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