What does TH stand for?

Helper T Cells

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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

Moreover, some researchers fear that CTLs revved up to kill HIV-infected helper T cells may run amok and destroy healthy helper T cells or allow mutating HIV to escape and reproduce.

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 ...

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

In HIV infection, CD4+ T cells, or helper T cells, are a major target for infection.

Xcyte Therapies, Inc. and Fresenius Biotech GmbH Enter HIV Gene ...

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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Also CD4 helper T cells are the cells that are targeted and eventually eliminated by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

LIAI Researchers Uncover Key Elements of Immune System Function; New ...