This finding clarifies how microenvironments and cellular contacts influence the location-specific adaptation of tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells
Immune System
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre have shown that while fever raises immune cell metabolism, proliferation, and activity, it also causes mitochondrial stress, DNA damage, and cell death in a specific subgroup of T cells. Their findings were published in the journal Science Immunology. The corresponding author of the current […]
One of the curious features of the thymus, however, is that it serves as the very first organ in our body to become small with age.
