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Editorial: memory CD8 T cells now join "Club 21".

Yutaka Tagaya

    Journal of Leukocyte Biology
    |January 6, 2010
    PubMed
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    Interleukin-21 (IL-21) antagonizes the expansion of nonfunctional memory CD8 T cells driven by IL-7 or IL-15. This suggests IL-21 maintains a competent and fresh memory T cell pool.

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