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. 2023 May;101(5):374-376.
doi: 10.1111/imcb.12632. Epub 2023 Mar 5.

Age is just a number: long-lasting T-cell immunity can span several lifetimes

Julian J Freen-van Heeren  1 , Rianne Opstelten  1
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Age is just a number: long-lasting T-cell immunity can span several lifetimes

Julian J Freen-van Heeren et al. Immunol Cell Biol. 2023 May.

Abstract

T-cell memory is considered long-lasting, but new evidence recently published in Nature by Soerens et al. shows that, under certain conditions, mouse memory T-cell immunity can span several mouse lifetimes.

Keywords: T-cell; adaptive immunity; immune memory; memory T-cell.

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