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SUBMITTER: Marzo AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2849311 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marzo Amanda L AL Klonowski Kimberly D KD Le Bon Agnes A Borrow Persephone P Tough David F DF Lefrançois Leo L
Nature immunology 20050717 8
Memory T cells can be divided into central memory T cell (T(CM) cell) and effector memory T cell (T(EM) cell) subsets based on homing characteristics and effector functions. Whether T(EM) and T(CM) cells represent interconnected or distinct lineages is unclear, although the present paradigm suggests that T(EM) and T(CM) cells follow a linear differentiation pathway from naive T cells to effector T cells to T(EM) cells to T(CM) cells. We show here that naive T cell precursor frequency profoundly ...[more]