They Are Young And Need The Job: A Second Chance For Dangerous T Cells

The immune system’s T-cells react to foreign protein fragments and therefore are crucial to combating viruses and bacteria. Errant cells that attack the body’s own material are in most cases driven to cell death. Some of these autoreactive T-cells, however, undergo a kind of reeducation to become “regulatory T-cells” that keep other autoreactive T-cells under control.

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Filed under: Biology on June 19th, 2009