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t cells

  1. leokitten

    Impaired ketogenesis ties metabolism to T cell dysfunction in COVID-19. Karagiannis et al, Nature (2022)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05128-8
  2. Shanti1

    Dr. Amy Proal interviews Dr. Liisa Selin about T cell exhaustion and viral activity in ME/CFS

    Dr. Liisa Selin is a professor of pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In her work as a viral immunologist, she and her colleague Dr. Anna Gil recently received an NIH grant to study the role of viral infection and T-cell exhaustion in the development of ME/CFS. She has...
  3. nerd

    Ketogenesis-generated β-hydroxybutyrate is an epigenetic regulator of CD8+ T-cell memory development

    Zhang, H., Tang, K., Ma, J. et al. Ketogenesis-generated β-hydroxybutyrate is an epigenetic regulator of CD8+ T-cell memory development. Nat Cell Biol 22, 18–25 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41556-019-0440-0 Abstract
  4. Pyrrhus

    Summary of NK and T cell discussions

    Since scientific studies on the lymphocytes called Natural Killer (NK) cells and CD8+ T cells in ME have provided conflicting results, I just wanted to start a thread to summarize in one place all discussions on this issue. Hopefully, by listing all discussions in one place, it will be easier...
    • Pyrrhus
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    • cd8+ t cells https://forums.phoenixrising.me/attachments/lympho-jpg.44061/ lymphocytes nk cells t cells
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    • Forum: Latest ME/CFS Research
  5. L

    Screening NK-, B- and T-cell phenotype and function in patients suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndr

    I concluded decades ago something was wrong with Tcell function. Levamisole improves Tcell function.