How to Use T cell in a Sentence

T cell

noun
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  • New research suggests that people with lupus have too much of a particular T cell that can cause damage in healthy cells and too little of a different type of T cell that can help with repair.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 15 July 2024
  • Once trained, T cells can travel anywhere in the body to hunt down danger.
    — Carla K. Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
  • That’s because the damage helps to lure in tumor-fighting T cells.
    — Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
  • Memory T cells, which are also tailored to the specific threat, are a key part of this.
    — WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Blocking this receptor hinders the production of T cells that can help heal wounds on the barrier of the skin, lungs and gut.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 July 2024
  • In time, Guccione said, the test could be used alongside other assays to reveal more about how T cells protect and for how long.
    — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • However, Davis pointed out their measurements turned up other kinds of T cells for the virus in the blood at levels that looked fine.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The likely explanation is found in a special cell in the human immune system known as a T cell.
    — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The T cells need to penetrate the cancerous tissue to be effective.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And if a virus does manage to invade a host cell, it will be targeted for destruction by memory T cells.
    — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The patients in the study had a chemical imbalance that controlled how their T cells, a type of white blood cell that's part of the immune system, reacted to infection.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
  • The acids, in turn, weakened the animals’ T cells — immune-system warriors that go rogue in autoimmune disorders.
    — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • One study suggested that sleep helps the body's infection-fighting T cells work more efficiently.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The other arm of the bispecific engages a T cell using another protein present on the surface of T cells like CD3, and pulls the two cells into close proximity.
    — Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Certain immune cells – called B and T cells – are the special forces of the immune system, playing an important role in the elimination of infectious invaders.
    — Aimee Pugh Bernard, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Then, the T cells multiply and target the tumor cells that have neoantigens on them, attacking and potentially destroying them.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 16 May 2023
  • One possibility relates to the viruses used to engineer patients’ T cells, which could be straying from their targets.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The treatment involves intravenous drips of the patient’s own T cells, reëngineered in a laboratory to bind with specific antigens on the surface of the patient’s cancer cells.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Immune cells known as T cells persist and continue to protect against severe disease, however.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
  • According to the National Cancer Institute, the treatment involves replicating a patient’s T cells — a type of white blood cell — and reprogramming them so they can be infused back into the patient to target and kill the cancer cells.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Now, the agency is probing reports of some patients’ T cells becoming cancerous after receiving these therapies.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Experts believe T cells may be recognizing the virus’ nucleocapsid protein, which forms the core structure of the virus, and which remains relatively similar among the various variants that have appeared so far.
    — Alice Park, Time, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The antibody and T cell measurements the studies rely on are thought to correspond to real-life protection, but studies are ongoing to determine exactly how reliable these correlates are.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2021
  • Unlike antibodies, which neutralize a pathogen by preventing it from infecting cells, T cells work by eliminating the cells that have already been invaded and boosting creation of more antibodies.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Additionally, these tumors actively suppress immune responses which CAR T cells need to eliminate the cancer.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And those cytokines were accompanied by corresponding elevations in inflammatory cellular responses, particularly cytotoxic T cells.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023

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