Putative role for interleukin-7 in the maintenance of the recirculating naive CD4+ T-cell pool.
The capacity of the immune system to respond efficiently to new antigens depends upon a continuous source of naive CD4+ T cells. Such cells exit from the thymus and join the recirculated T-cell pool. Factors present at the sites of naive CD4+ T-cell circulation must be responsible for their survival...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1999
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