Medical Definition of Cytotoxic T-cell
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Subset of T lymphocytes (mostly CD8) responsible for lysing target cells and for killing virus infected cells (in the context of Class I histocompatibility antigens).
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytotoxic T-cell
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