The role of models in understanding CD8+ T-cell memory

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-111

  Antia, Rustom ^a   Ganusov, Vitaly V ^a   Ahmed, Rafi ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; SMALLPOX VACCINE; VACCINE;

ANTIGEN FUNCTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DRUG USE; EXPERIMENT; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MEMORY CELL; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TIME; VACCINATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

EID: 13444270503     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1550     Document Type: Review

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