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SUBMITTER: Scheible KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916253 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scheible Kristin M KM Emo Jason J Laniewski Nathan N Baran Andrea M AM Peterson Derick R DR Holden-Wiltse Jeanne J Bandyopadhyay Sanjukta S Straw Andrew G AG Huyck Heidie H Ashton John M JM Tripi Kelly Schooping KS Arul Karan K Werner Elizabeth E Scalise Tanya T Maffett Deanna D Caserta Mary M Ryan Rita M RM Reynolds Anne Marie AM Ren Clement L CL Topham David J DJ Mariani Thomas J TJ Pryhuber Gloria S GS
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The inverse relationship between gestational age at birth and postviral respiratory morbidity suggests that infants born preterm (PT) may miss a critical developmental window of T cell maturation. Despite a continued increase in younger PT survivors with respiratory complications, we have limited understanding of normal human fetal T cell maturation, how ex utero development in premature infants may interrupt normal T cell development, and whether T cell development has an effect on infant outco ...[more]