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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2013

Regulatory T Cells Control Immune Responses through Their Non-Redundant Tissue Specific Features.

Sari Lehtimäki, Riitta Lahesmaa

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sari LehtimäkiTurku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University , Turku , Finland.
Riitta Lahesmaa

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory T cells (Treg) are needed in the control of immune responses and to maintain immune homeostasis. Of this subtype of regulatory lymphocytes, the most potent are Foxp3 expressing CD4+ T cells, which can be roughly divided into two main groups; natural Treg cells (nTreg), developing in the thymus, and induced or adaptive Treg cells (iTreg), developing in the periphery from naïve, conventional T cells. Both nTreg cells and iTreg cells have their own, non-redundant roles in the immune system, with nTreg cells mainly maintaining tolerance toward self-structures, and iTreg developing in response to externally delivered antigens or commensal microbes. In addition, Treg cells acquire tissue specific features and are adapted to function in the tissue they reside. This review will focus on some specific features of Treg cells in different compartments of the body.

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immunitymicrobiotaregulatory T cellsystems biologytissue specificitytolerance

Identifiers

PMID24069022
PMCPMC3780303

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