contrasuppressor cell

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• Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… …   Medical dictionary

• contrasuppressor cells — cells that augment the immune response by suppressing the activity of other suppressor cells, or by rendering the reactive cell unresponsive to suppression …   Medical dictionary

• T lymphocytes — the cells primarily responsible for cell mediated immunity; they originate from lymphoid stem cells that migrate from the bone marrow to the thymus and differentiate under the influence of the thymic hormones thymopoietin and thymosin. They are… …   Medical dictionary

• suppressor cells — suppressor T cells differentiated T lymphocytes of the CD8 cells group that suppress antibody synthesis or cell mediated immunity. They may be activated in response to antigen or to idiotypic determinants present on antibodies and T and B cell… …   Medical dictionary