scholarly journals T Cell Memory in Infection, Cancer, and Autoimmunity

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Barnaba

Long-term immunological memory represents a unique performance of the adaptive immunity selected during evolution to support long-term survival of species in vertebrates, through protection against dangerous “invaders”, namely, infectious agents or unwanted (e.g., tumor) cells. The balance between the development of T cell memory and various mechanisms of immunoregulation (namely, T cell effector exhaustion and regulatory T cell suppression) dictates the fate in providing protection or not in different conditions, such as (acute or chronic) infection, vaccination, cancer, and autoimmunity. Here, these different environments are taken in consideration to outline the up-to-date cellular and molecular features regulating the development or damping of immunological memory and to delineate therapeutic strategies capable to improve or control it, in order to address pathological contexts, such as infection, tumor, and autoimmunity.

2000 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S382
Author(s):  
Nozomi Koyamada ◽  
Jun Takayama ◽  
Takayuki Abe ◽  
Nobuhiro Ohkohchi ◽  
Susumu Satomi

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 1609-1626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Amund Kyte ◽  
Sissel Trachsel ◽  
Bente Risberg ◽  
Per thor Straten ◽  
Kari Lislerud ◽  
...  

1996 ◽  
Vol 183 (5) ◽  
pp. 2153-2163 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Di Rosa ◽  
P Matzinger

The cellular basis of immunological memory has been a debated issue. It is not clear whether CD8 T cell memory is maintained by long-lived cells or by specific or nonspecific restimulation. Here, we have approached the question from a different angle, asking whether the cellular interactions that are required to maintain memory are the same as those necessary to activate cytotoxic T lymphocytes. We studied the CD8 memory response to the male antigen H-Y in mice deficient in CD4 cells, or B cells and found that memory in these mice was virtually unimpaired. These results suggest that CD8 memory is CD4 independent and that there is no requirement for long term retention of immune complexes on follicular dendritic cells, nor for B cells as antigen-presenting cells.


2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ru-Xiang Wang ◽  
Greet J. Boland ◽  
Jan van Hattum ◽  
Gijsbert C. de Gast

2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (14) ◽  
pp. 7756-7763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Liu ◽  
Samita Andreansky ◽  
Gabriela Diaz ◽  
Stephen J. Turner ◽  
Dominik Wodarz ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The consequences for the long-term maintenance of virus-specific CD8+-T-cell memory have been analyzed experimentally for sequential respiratory infections with readily eliminated (influenza virus) and persistent (gammaherpesvirus 68 [γHV68]) pathogens. Sampling a broad range of tissue sites established that the numbers of CD8+ T cells specific for the prominent influenza virus DbNP366 epitope were reduced by about half in mice that had been challenged 100 days previously with γHV68, though the prior presence of a large CD8+ DbNP366 + population caused no selective defect in the γHV68-specific CD8+ Kbp79+ response. Conversely, mice that had been primed and boosted to generate substantial γHV68-specific CD8+ Dbp56+ populations did not show any decrease in prevalence for this set of CD8+ memory cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) at 200 days after respiratory exposure to an influenza A virus. However, in both experiments, the total magnitude of the CD8+-T-cell pool was significantly diminished in those that had been infected with γHV68 and the influenza A virus. The broader implications of these findings, especially under conditions of repeated exposure to unrelated pathogens, are explored with a mathematical model which emphasizes that the immune effector and memory “phenome” is a function of the overall infection experience of the individual.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten E. Lyke ◽  
Abdoulaye Dabo ◽  
Charles Arama ◽  
Issa Diarra ◽  
Christopher V. Plowe ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 2574-2582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Ostler ◽  
Tracy Hussell ◽  
Charles D. Surh ◽  
Peter Openshaw ◽  
Stephan Ehl

2007 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. D. Ostrout ◽  
M. M. McHugh ◽  
D. J. Tisch ◽  
A. M. Moormann ◽  
V. Brusic ◽  
...  

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