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Balanced T cell response key to avoiding COVID-19 symptoms study suggests. The generation of memory T cells long-lived cells that give an accelerated response to antigen is much less well understood than the generation of effector T cells. T Cells In Covid 19 United In Diversity Nature Immunology The researchers characterized the different T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2. T cell response . Treatment of cancer has been revolutionized by immune checkpoint blockade therapies. Over the next few days 9095 of antigen-specific T cells then die off leaving behind a pool of memory cells. The T cell branch of the immune system can respond to a virtually infinite variety of exogenous antigens thus including the possibility of self-antigen recognition and dangerous autoimmune reactions. The activation of naive T cells in response to antigen and their subsequent proliferation and differentiation constitutes a primary immune response. Collectively these functions produce an in situ respo