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T-cell subsets: recruiting the right kind of help
1Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02160, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
The qualitative features of immune responses are influenced by the polarization of helper T cells towards two distinct phenotypes, Th1 and Th2. Recent evidence suggests that these helper cell subsets may be differentially recruited to the sites of different types of inflammatory reaction.