Tracking Immunity in Vivo |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Wednesday Afternoon Lectures |
| Description: | The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Immunity to infection is mediated by T lymphocytes, specialized cells that use highly evolved recognition elements to maintain protection against foreign microbes. T lymphocytes differentiate from a naive state to an effector state. The latter is characterized by the ability to secrete large amounts of potent molecules, termed cytokines, that collectively orchestrate and focus the attack against pathogens. Different types of pathogenic organisms require different types of immune responses, that are defined by the spectrum of cytokines produced by the effector T lymphocytes. For more information, visit Richard Locksley |
| Author: | Richard Locksley, Ph. D., UCSF |
| Runtime: | 01:04:08 |
| Rights: | This is a work of the United States Government. No copyright exists on this material. It may be disseminated freely. |
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| CIT File ID: | 10253 |
| CIT Live ID: | 1897 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?10253 |