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Treg

Treg

5 9.8
A white blood cell that controls the immune system and stops it from attacking the body
  • noun
  • Specialized
: célula T reguladora
  • Treg cells can be divided into effector subtypes that match Th cell subsets.
  • Treg cells

Examples

  • The role of Treg cells in controlling type 2 immune responses, particularly at mucosal surfaces, has become more apparent, but much work remains.

    Academic text (2016)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The details of Treg cell control of type 2 immunity have been a major question in the field.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The role for Treg cells in RA has been established in both patients and animal models.

    Blog text (11)
  • The recent work of Bacher et al. further expands on this notion that Treg cells are actively involved in the regulation of Th2 responses.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Thus, artificial induction of CTLA-4 expression on RA Treg restores their suppressive capacity 119.

    Blog text (11)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2016)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2016)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Researchers found that Treg cells play a crucial role in preventing autoimmune diseases by helping to regulate the immune response.

Surface Forms

Treg singular
Tregs plural

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.