How T cells lose their touch

Michael L Dustin

doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2014.02.001

How T cells lose their touch

Immunity. 2014 Feb 20;40(2):169-71. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2014.02.001.

Author

Michael L Dustin¹

Affiliation

¹ Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS, The University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7FY, UK; Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

T cells are among the most sensitive of cells, but in this issue of Immunity, Honda et al. (2014) demonstrate that effector T cells must lose their touch within hours to protect the host from immunopathology.

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Feedback, Physiological*
Inflammation / immunology*
Models, Biological*
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / immunology*
T-Lymphocytes / immunology*

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Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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