Treg
- noun
- Specialized
- Treg cells can be divided into effector subtypes that match Th cell subsets.
- Treg cells
Examples
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The role of Treg cells in controlling type 2 immune responses, particularly at mucosal surfaces, has become more apparent, but much work remains.
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While the Treg cell-specific deletion of CTLA-4 leads to fatal lymphoproliferative disease, deletion of IL-10 in Treg cells instead leads to increased inflammation at barrier tissues.
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The details of Treg cell control of type 2 immunity have been a major question in the field.
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The role for Treg cells in RA has been established in both patients and animal models.
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The recent work of Bacher et al. further expands on this notion that Treg cells are actively involved in the regulation of Th2 responses.
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Thus, artificial induction of CTLA-4 expression on RA Treg restores their suppressive capacity 119.
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The expression of similar transcription factors between effector T cells and Treg cells is thought to lead to the expression of similar chemokine receptors, allowing colocalization and more effective regulation.
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Using novel techniques to enrich rare antigen-activated T cells, they were able to identify a robust pool of activated Treg cells that prevent Th2 responses to common inhaled allergens.
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IFN-Is likely also regulate Treg function indirectly by induction of downstream regulatory effectors, such as IDO, which, when inhibited, causes a loss of Treg suppression in many tumor types.
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Researchers found that Treg cells play a crucial role in preventing autoimmune diseases by helping to regulate the immune response.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Treg = regulatory T cell (opaque) = T + reg
The form 'Treg' is an abbreviated, domain-specific label for 'regulatory T cell' and is not transparently interpretable by an average B1 learner from its parts alone.
Etymology
The word Treg is short for T regulatory cell, where the T names the 'T cell' type and regulatory comes from a word meaning 'to control'. So a Treg is a T cell that helps 'control' or calm the immune response.