Human T cell development, localization, and function throughout life

BV Kumar, TJ Connors, DL Farber - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Throughout life, T cells coordinate multiple aspects of adaptive immunity, including
responses to pathogens, allergens, and tumors. In mouse models, the role of T cells is …

Human inborn errors of immunity: an expanding universe

LD Notarangelo, R Bacchetta, JL Casanova… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Molecular, cellular, and clinical studies of human inborn errors of immunity have
revolutionized our understanding of their pathogenesis, considerably broadened their …

[HTML][HTML] Health consequences of thymus removal in adults

KA Kooshesh, BH Foy, DB Sykes… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The function of the thymus in human adults is unclear, and routine removal of
the thymus is performed in a variety of surgical procedures. We hypothesized that the adult …

Caloric restriction in humans reveals immunometabolic regulators of health span

O Spadaro, Y Youm, I Shchukina, S Ryu, S Sidorov… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The extension of life span driven by 40% caloric restriction (CR) in rodents causes trade-offs
in growth, reproduction, and immune defense that make it difficult to identify therapeutically …

T cell regeneration after immunological injury

E Velardi, JJ Tsai, MRM van den Brink - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Following periods of haematopoietic cell stress, such as after chemotherapy, radiotherapy,
infection and transplantation, patient outcomes are linked to the degree of immune …

Thymic involution and rising disease incidence with age

S Palmer, L Albergante… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
For many cancer types, incidence rises rapidly with age as an apparent power law,
supporting the idea that cancer is caused by a gradual accumulation of genetic mutations …

Newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency in 11 screening programs in the United States

A Kwan, RS Abraham, R Currier, A Brower… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) using
assays to detect T-cell receptor excision circles (TRECs) began in Wisconsin in 2008, and …

The full spectrum of human naive T cells

T van den Broek, JAM Borghans… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Naive T cells have long been regarded as a developmentally synchronized and fairly
homogeneous and quiescent cell population, the size of which depends on age, thymic …

A human memory T cell subset with stem cell–like properties

L Gattinoni, E Lugli, Y Ji, Z Pos, CM Paulos… - Nature medicine, 2011 - nature.com
Immunological memory is thought to depend on a stem cell–like, self-renewing population of
lymphocytes capable of differentiating into effector cells in response to antigen re-exposure …

Characterization of humoral and SARS-CoV-2 specific T cell responses in people living with HIV

A Alrubayyi, E Gea-Mallorquí, E Touizer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
There is an urgent need to understand the nature of immune responses against SARS-CoV-
2, to inform risk-mitigation strategies for people living with HIV (PLWH). Here we show that …