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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2008

Shaping and reshaping CD8+ T-cell memory.

John T Harty, Vladimir P Badovinac

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 351 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

351 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

John T HartyDepartment of Microbiology and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. john-harty@uiowa.edu
Vladimir P Badovinac

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to develop and sustain populations of memory T cells after infection or immunization is a hallmark of the adaptive immune response and a basis for protective vaccination against infectious disease. Technical advances that allow direct ex vivo identification and characterization of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells at various stages of the response to infection or vaccination in mouse models have fuelled efforts to characterize the factors that control memory CD8+ T-cell generation. Here, we dissect the input signals that shape the characteristics of the memory CD8+ T-cell response and discuss how manipulation of these signals has the potential to reshape CD8+ T-cell memory and improve the efficacy of vaccination.

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Immunologic MemoryVaccinationAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHumansInflammationLymphocyte ActivationMiceTransgenes

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PMID18219309

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