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Subduing Suppressors.
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- Author(s): Helton, Lisa
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Scientific American. Dec2002, Vol. 287 Issue 6, p28. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.
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Focuses on a white blood cell known as a regulatory, or suppressor, T cell, which can subdue certain immune cells. Idea that subdued immune cells can be used to fight disease such as hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis; Topics of the CD4 T lymphocyte, or helper T cell, the CD25 molecule and the glucocorticoid-induced TNF receptor molecule; Research by Shimon Sakaguchi who developed a monoclonal antibody to restrain suppressor cells; Implication of how the research can be used to annihilate cancer cells.
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