Biology Forum › Cell Biology › T-cells!
- AuthorPosts
- May 21, 2007 at 12:32 am #7682
peacelovesofeParticipantI need to write a discription of, or draw a diagram with labels, of how a T cell develops into clonal populations of cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) and memory T cells.
I also have to include the answers to these 3 questions:
1. What are all the factors that stimulate the T cell to proliferate?
2. What is the role of the T helper cells?
3. What do cytotoxic T cells help rid the body of?Can anyone please help? I am so confused.
- May 21, 2007 at 9:54 am #72930pingParticipant
Look here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/. There is a book about immunobiology.
- May 21, 2007 at 2:54 pm #72946blcr11Participant
I couldn’t find anything at the NCBI site. I presume it’s there somewhere, but it didn’t jump out at me. You could also check out the following:
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Health- … ocytes.pdf
Take a look at the entire course if you like. The class notes are available for free.
- May 24, 2007 at 1:36 pm #73111pingParticipant
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer … %5Bbook%5D
- May 24, 2007 at 5:55 pm #73122blcr11Participant
Ah, you meant you could search for a book on immunology on PubMed. I thought maybe there was an online immunology resource there like their tutorials on bioinformatics and some biological techniques and that I just couldn’t find it. You can search for text books on immunology at Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com, too.
- May 24, 2007 at 9:43 pm #73129canalonParticipantquote blcr11:Ah, you meant you could search for a book on immunology on PubMed. I thought maybe there was an online immunology resource there like their tutorials on bioinformatics and some biological techniques and that I just couldn’t find it. You can search for text books on immunology at Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com, too.
Nope, books in the "books" section of the NCBI have free access (although you cannot download them and navigation is…poor, to say the least). There is quite a choice on a wide variety of topics too.
- May 24, 2007 at 10:35 pm #73131blcr11Participant
Whadya know. I didn’t realize that. Thanks. Useful information to know. And I thought I was pretty familiar with PubMed/ncbi. Guess it never pays to be too cocky.
- May 25, 2007 at 2:19 am #73135fulmenatrumParticipant
From what I know, memory cells activate T cells which help destroy the virus. You might want to try Wikipedia since they have some real good articles on it.
- May 25, 2007 at 2:15 pm #73147david23Participant
memory cells are B cells and are activated by T cells.
- AuthorPosts
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.