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Cytotoxic T-cells are just a specialized subset of T-cells that express CD8 (a co-stimulatory molecule). In general, there are two types of T-cells, helper T-cells that express CD4 and cytotoxic T-cells that express CD8. As the name implies, cytotoxic T-cells have the role of killing any infected cells.

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Natural killer cells lack typical T- or B- cell surface markers, and they do not proliferate in response to antigen and appear not to be involved in antigen-specific recognition.

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