Tissue-resident memory T cells: Local specialists in immune defence

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 79-89

  Mueller, Scott N ^a   Mackay, Laura K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD69 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURFACE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE RESIDENT MEMORY T CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84957431152     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2015.3     Document Type: Review

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