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Review
. 2000 May 4;10(9):R338-40.
doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00461-9.

T-cell memory: You must remember this .

M J Bevan  1 , A W Goldrath
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Review

T-cell memory: You must remember this .

M J Bevan et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

While antigen-inexperienced (naive) T cells appear to require constant tickling of their receptor by self-antigens for homeostasis, antigen-experienced (memory) T cells have no such requirement. An implication is that long-term T-cell memory does not depend on persisting antigen.

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