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Lymph nodes

Lymph nodes

small, bean-shaped organs located throughout the lymphatic system. The lymph nodes store special cells that can trap cancer cells or bacteria that are traveling through the body in lymph. Also called lymph glands.


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Re: T cell differentiation

... as naive CD4+ and CD8+ cells and then recognise the antigen in the lymph nodes (mainly) but recently there have been RTE's discovered which are not yet CD4 or CD8 positive ...

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by Immunologyordie
Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:41 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: T cell differentiation
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T cell differentiation

... The final adjustment, then, happens in the periphery (such as lymph nodes). Apparently RTEs are a relaively recent finding, with Haines et al. (2009) describing ...

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by biohazard
Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:43 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: T cell differentiation
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Views: 2252

Re: T cell differentiation

So after they have been activated in the lymph nodes they travel to the thymus where they differentiate and then migrate to infected tissue If anyone ...

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by Immunologyordie
Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:23 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: T cell differentiation
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Views: 2252

T cell differentiation

... take place? As i understand it when the t cell is activated in the lymph nodes it differentiates into Th and Tc. Tc go off to the inflamed tissue and Th cells diferentiate ...

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by Immunologyordie
Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:25 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: T cell differentiation
Replies: 12
Views: 2252

Blood types

... type so they can transfer it to A, B and AB blood types? I know the lymph nodes are the harvesting nodes for antibodies but I also know there are antibodies floating ...

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by Darwin420
Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:05 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Blood types
Replies: 2
Views: 720
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