Hi Dan,
please visit www.mi.interhealth.info for a far more detailed
explanation on existing types of regulatory T cells, including those
with suppressor activity (use CTRL+F search method). Luciana's reply
is almost partial, and most of your considerations on their ontogeny
are wrong.
After careful reading, please feel free to contact me for any
additional question.
The text is based on some recent reviews appeared on Nature Reviews
Immunology : searching in PubMed is quite useless if you can't access
full-texts (I had already experienced it !).
Have a nice navigation !
Daniele
"Dan Marquez" <dmarquez3 at socal.rr.com> wrote in message news:<xR9i9.17210$V7.4321913 at twister.socal.rr.com>...
> Thank you kindly, Luciana! That was an old question, but the answer is
> really appreciated nevertheless!
>> Would it be correct to say that Suppressor T cells are the same helper T
> cells that were outputting IL-4 (to proliferate more Th cells), their
> function change resulting from a drop in IL-12 levels (because macrophages
> stopped eating)?
>> Thanks!
