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What are T cells and why are they important?

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What organs plays an important role in the development of T-cells?

Thymus


Which cells exhibit clonal diversity?

Human cells that exhibit clonal diversity are the T and B lymphocytes which are important cells of the immune response.


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T cells are part of the adaptive immunity. There are two major types of T cells: CD4+ T helper cells and CD8+ T cytotoxic cells. T helper cells primarily function in humoral immunity whereas T cytotoxic cells are important in cell mediated immunity. T helper cells produce cytokines to activate other immune system components like macrophages, B cells, etc. whereas T cytotoxic cells primarily kill infected cells.


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they are all important but the main two are T and B cells


What does the t cells and b cells do?

B cells stand for Bursa of Fabricus and T cells stand for T-lyphocytes.


What do T cells do What do b cells do?

t cells are killer cells b cells are antibodies


How do T-Cells fight infection?

Helper T cells activate killer T cells.


What Dampens activity of T and B cells?

Regulatory T-cells


Are cytotoxic T cells a type of T cell clone?

Yes, cytotoxic T-cells are a subset of T-cells that in contrast to helpter T-cells express CD8.


Which is only active during a specific immune responsible?

T cells apex or B cells


How do killer cells work?

Killer t cells are activated by helper t cells. The Helper t cells are alerted by the macrophage that has engulfed the virus. It grows antigens to alert the helper t cells. The killer t cells are like white blood cells, there purpose is to fight pathogens.


What does T in T cells stand for?

The T in T-cells stands for the thymus gland. Lymphocytes produced in the bone marrow are either become B-cells or they are matured in the thymus gland and are "trained" to be either Natural Killer T-cells, CD4 (Helper T-cells), CD8 (Suppressor T-cells).