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Published September 7, 2000 | public
Journal Article

Investigating T-cell memory

Abstract

Memory is a long-recognized, crucial and poorly understood property of adaptive immunity. Jacob and Baltimore have designed an elegant genetic approach to marking memory T cells and their precursors irreversibly and have obtained intriguing results. I suggest that the particular enzyme (human placental alkaline phosphatase) chosen for irreversible marking in postnatal life contributes to certain features of this system and perturbs the homeostatic mechanisms of T-cell activation and death.

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© 2000 Macmillan Magazines Ltd.

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