Making memories that last a lifetime: Heritable functions of self-renewing memory CD8 T cells

International Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 797-803

  Youngblood, Ben ^a,b   Davis, Carl W ^a,b   Ahmed, Rafi ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD8 T cell; Epigenetic; Immune memory; Infection; T cell differentiation

Indexed keywords

CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIVISION; CELL RENEWAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 77957339221     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: 14602377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxq437     Document Type: Review

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