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. 2013 Feb 21;38(2):207-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2013.02.002.

One bug or another: promiscuous T cells form lifelong memory

Jeffrey C Nolz  1 , John T Harty
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One bug or another: promiscuous T cells form lifelong memory

Jeffrey C Nolz et al. Immunity. .
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As humans age, their T cell repertoire becomes dominated by cells exhibiting "memory" characteristics. In this issue of Immunity, Su et al. (2013) demonstrate that a large percentage of virus-specific CD4(+) T cells also exhibit a memory phenotype in unexposed adults.

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