Buffered memory: A hypothesis for the maintenance of functional, virus-specific CD8 + T cells during cytomegalovirus infection

Immunologic Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 195-204

  Snyder, Christopher M ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CD8 + T cell; Memory inflation; Murine cytomegalovirus

Indexed keywords

CD27 ANTIGEN; CD28 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; L SELECTIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; APOPTOSIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HALF LIFE TIME; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; UPREGULATION; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

EID: 84856511137     PISSN: 0257277X     EISSN: 15590755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12026-011-8251-9     Document Type: Review

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