Suppressive and immunoprotective functions of Tregs

CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ T lymphocytes, known as regulatory T cells or Tregs, have been proposed to be a lineage of professional immune suppressive cells that exclusively counteract the effects of the immunoprotective "helper" and "cytotoxic" lineages of T lymphocytes. He...

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Main Authors: Pushpa ePandiyan, Lixin eZheng, Michael eLenardo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2011.00060/full