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Innate antibacterial role for γδ T cells
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011107-03
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Vγ2Vδ2 T cells are found only in primates and have diverse functions, mediating host defences during bacterial and parasitic infections. In November 1 Journal of Clinical Investigation, Lisheng Wang and colleagues from Harvard Medical School, show that Vγ2Vδ2 T cells are sufficient to control bacterial infections in mice that lack B or T cells and therefore are important in innate immune responses that do not involve immunological memory.
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