Programming perpetual T helper cell plasticity

Emily Rowell; Christopher B Wilson

doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2008.12.012

Programming perpetual T helper cell plasticity

Immunity. 2009 Jan 16;30(1):7-9. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2008.12.012.

Authors

Emily Rowell¹, Christopher B Wilson

Affiliation

¹ Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

PMID: 19144312
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2008.12.012

Abstract

In this issue of Immunity,Lee et al. (2009) and Wei et al. (2009) each investigate the stability of T helper cell lineages and find that commitment to these fates is more plastic than previously appreciated.

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MeSH terms

CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / immunology*
Cell Lineage / immunology*
Humans
Immunologic Memory
Lymphocyte Activation
T-Lymphocyte Subsets / immunology*
T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / immunology*