How to Use T cell in a Sentence

T cell

noun

• Blocking this receptor hinders the production of T cells that can help heal wounds on the barrier of the skin, lungs and gut.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 July 2024
• The patients in the study had a chemical imbalance that controlled how their T cells, a type of white blood cell that's part of the immune system, reacted to infection.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
• Once trained, T cells can travel anywhere in the body to hunt down danger.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
• That’s because the damage helps to lure in tumor-fighting T cells.
  — Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
• Memory T cells, which are also tailored to the specific threat, are a key part of this.
  — WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• In time, Guccione said, the test could be used alongside other assays to reveal more about how T cells protect and for how long.
  — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
• However, Davis pointed out their measurements turned up other kinds of T cells for the virus in the blood at levels that looked fine.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
• The likely explanation is found in a special cell in the human immune system known as a T cell.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
• The T cells need to penetrate the cancerous tissue to be effective.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• And if a virus does manage to invade a host cell, it will be targeted for destruction by memory T cells.
  — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023
• The acids, in turn, weakened the animals’ T cells — immune-system warriors that go rogue in autoimmune disorders.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• One study suggested that sleep helps the body's infection-fighting T cells work more efficiently.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health, 27 Sep. 2023
• The other arm of the bispecific engages a T cell using another protein present on the surface of T cells like CD3, and pulls the two cells into close proximity.
  — Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 18 Jan. 2023
• Certain immune cells – called B and T cells – are the special forces of the immune system, playing an important role in the elimination of infectious invaders.
  — Aimee Pugh Bernard, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2023
• Then, the T cells multiply and target the tumor cells that have neoantigens on them, attacking and potentially destroying them.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 16 May 2023
• One possibility relates to the viruses used to engineer patients’ T cells, which could be straying from their targets.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 29 Nov. 2023
• The treatment involves intravenous drips of the patient’s own T cells, reëngineered in a laboratory to bind with specific antigens on the surface of the patient’s cancer cells.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Immune cells known as T cells persist and continue to protect against severe disease, however.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• According to the National Cancer Institute, the treatment involves replicating a patient’s T cells — a type of white blood cell — and reprogramming them so they can be infused back into the patient to target and kill the cancer cells.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
• Now, the agency is probing reports of some patients’ T cells becoming cancerous after receiving these therapies.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
• Experts believe T cells may be recognizing the virus’ nucleocapsid protein, which forms the core structure of the virus, and which remains relatively similar among the various variants that have appeared so far.
  — Alice Park, Time, 26 Sep. 2023
• The antibody and T cell measurements the studies rely on are thought to correspond to real-life protection, but studies are ongoing to determine exactly how reliable these correlates are.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2021
• Unlike antibodies, which neutralize a pathogen by preventing it from infecting cells, T cells work by eliminating the cells that have already been invaded and boosting creation of more antibodies.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
• Additionally, these tumors actively suppress immune responses which CAR T cells need to eliminate the cancer.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• And those cytokines were accompanied by corresponding elevations in inflammatory cellular responses, particularly cytotoxic T cells.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024