Virus-induced CD8+ T cell clonal expansion is associated with telomerase up-regulation and telomere length preservation: A mechanism for rescue from replicative senescence

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4521-4526

  Maini, Mala K ^a   Soares, Maria Vieira D ^b   Zilch, Christian F ^a   Akbar, Arne N ^b   Beverley, Peter C L ^a,c  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Churchill Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADULT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; MEMORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TELOMERE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CLONE CELLS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0033561672     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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