Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Tissue-resident memory T cells populate the human brain

  • Joost Smolders,
  • Kirstin M. Heutinck,
  • Nina L. Fransen,
  • Ester B. M. Remmerswaal,
  • Pleun Hombrink,
  • Ineke J. M. ten Berge,
  • René A. W. van Lier,
  • Inge Huitinga,
  • Jörg Hamann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07053-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Tissue-resident immune cells are important for local protections from pathogens. Here the authors show that brain tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM cells) can be further subsetted by CD103 expression, with higher CD103 correlates with increased chemokine receptor and exhaustion markers such as PD1 or CTLA4, but reduced differentiation markers.