cytotoxic T cells — cytotoxic T lymphocytes … Medical dictionary
Cytotoxic T cell — Antigen presentation stimulates T cells to become either cytotoxic CD8+ cells or helper CD4+ cells. A cytotoxic T cell (also known as TC, Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte, CTL, T Killer cell, cytolytic T cell, CD8+ T cells or killer T cell) belongs to a… … Wikipedia
Cytotoxic — Toxic to cells, cell toxic, cell killing. Any agent or process that kills cells. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are forms of cytotoxic therapy. They kill cells. The prefix cyto denotes a cell. It comes from the Greek kytos meaning hollow, as a… … Medical dictionary
cytotoxic T-cells — Subset of T lymphocytes (mostly CD8+ ) responsible for lysing target cells and for killing virus infected cells (in the context of Class I histocompatibility antigens) … Dictionary of molecular biology
T lymphocytes — the cells primarily responsible for cell mediated immunity; they originate from lymphoid stem cells that migrate from the bone marrow to the thymus and differentiate under the influence of the thymic hormones thymopoietin and thymosin. They are… … Medical dictionary
T lymphocytes, cytotoxic — T cells that express the CD8 transmembrane glycoprotein (CD8+ T cells). They are antigen specific: able to search out and kill specific types of infected cells. When they find cells carrying the viral peptide they are looking for, they induce… … Medical dictionary
killer T cells — cytotoxic T lymphocytes … Medical dictionary
T-killer cells — cytotoxic T lymphocytes … Medical dictionary
Major histocompatibility complex — The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a large genomic region or gene family found in most vertebrates that encodes MHC molecules. MHC molecules play an important role in the immune system and autoimmunity. Proteins are continually… … Wikipedia
Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… … Medical dictionary
