CD8-Lymphocytes - 2
•Specific Cell Characteristics: cont=d
•1.Lymphocytes - continued
•˜Tcytotoxic - lymphocyte functions: - continued
•emay also participate as effector cells in:
•Uallograft rejections
•Utumor rejections
•˜Tsuppressor - lymphocyte characteristics:
•ehave CD8 receptor
•enow believed not to be a distinct type of cell but rather a different function of the T-cell
•˜Tsuppressor - lymphocyte functions:
•eblock various immune responses by secreting inhibitory cytokines