What does HTC stand for?

Helper T Cell

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The Hutchinson center scientists focused instead on specific helper T cells that are adept at locking onto a cancer cell and guiding the killer cells to their target.

Man with deadly skin cancer saved by new treatment

To accomplish these duties, various types of T cells are used, including helper T cells (T-helper cells) and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs).

The immune system (Part 1 of 2): T cells, B cells, and cytokines

There, the virus infects an immune cell called the helper T cell, which directs a range of immune responses.

Multiplied immune cells combat HIV

Schoenberger and his team had shown that helper T cells enable killer T cells to survive when they re-encounter infected cells.

LIAI Scientists Make Important Finding on Regulation of Immune Cell ...

Meanwhile, levels of the chimp's helper T cells - the main target of HIV in the bloodstream - have fallen tenfold since 1990.

FIRST CHIMP GETS AIDS; COULD STAND IN FOR HUMANS IN TESTS

His own work indicates that exposure to lead and various other heavy metals can upset the balance between two classes of the immune system's helper T cells in favor of cells less able to ward off certain viral infections.

Lead may foster immune attack on brain

Umetsu said each appears to be associated with a different helper T cell (Th cell).

Stanford/Packard Researchers Identify T Cell that Relieves Asthma in ...

And by doing so, he suggests, the drug halts genetic activity in the helper T cells, the orchestrators of the immune system.

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