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T cell memory
Jonathan Sprent1, Charles D Surh
1Department of Immunology, IMM4, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. jsprent@scripps.edu
Annual Review of Immunology
|February 28, 2002
Abstract:
Typical immune responses lead to prominent clonal expansion of antigen-specific T and B cells followed by differentiation into effector cells. Most effector cells die at the end of the immune response but some of these cells survive and form long-lived memory cells. The factors controlling the formation and survival of memory T cells are reviewed.