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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 177, Issue 3, Pages 1411-1415Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.3.1411
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Memory T cells mount an enhanced response to secondary infections. Such an enhancement has been attributed in part to the ability of memory cells to more rapidly respond to cognate stimulation. In this study we have examined the rapidity with which murine CD8(+) memory T cells respond to a localized infection with HSV Although central memory T cells (TcM), but not the effector memory T cells, mounted a strong recall response to secondary infection, the kinetics of TcM proliferation, the magnitude of their expansion, and their infiltration into infected nonlymphoid tissues were not advanced compared with that observed for naive T cells. These findings imply that it is the lack of accelerated proliferation kinetics and the subsequent delayed dissemination into the periphery that limits the ability of TcM to rapidly control localized virus replication.
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