Migration, maintenance and recall of memory T cells in peripheral tissues

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 153-161

  Woodland, David L ^a   Kohlmeier, Jacob E ^a  

^a TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CHOLERA TOXIN; CUTANEOUS LYMPHOCYTE ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN; LIPOCORTIN 5;

ANTIGEN FUNCTION; APOPTOSIS; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTESTINE CELL; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTESTINES; LUNG; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VACCINES;

EID: 61349161008     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2496     Document Type: Review

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