Germinal centers

GD Victora, MC Nussenzweig - Annual review of immunology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Germinal centers (GCs) were described more than 125 years ago as compartments within
secondary lymphoid organs that contained mitotic cells. Since then, it has become clear that …

Follicular helper T cells

CG Vinuesa, MA Linterman, D Yu… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Although T cell help for B cells was described several decades ago, it was the identification
of CXCR5 expression by B follicular helper T (Tfh) cells and the subsequent discovery of …

[HTML][HTML] CXCL13-producing TFH cells link immune suppression and adaptive memory in human breast cancer

C Gu-Trantien, E Migliori, L Buisseret, A de Wind… - JCI insight, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
T follicular helper cells (T FH cells) are important regulators of antigen-specific B cell
responses. The B cell chemoattractant CXCL13 has recently been linked with T FH cell …

Circulating precursor CCR7loPD-1hi CXCR5+ CD4+ T cells indicate Tfh cell activity and promote antibody responses upon antigen reexposure

J He, LM Tsai, YA Leong, X Hu, CS Ma, N Chevalier… - Immunity, 2013 - cell.com
Summary Follicular B helper T (Tfh) cells support high affinity and long-term antibody
responses. Here we found that within circulating CXCR5+ CD4+ T cells in humans and …

Interleukin-2 inhibits germinal center formation by limiting T follicular helper cell differentiation

A Ballesteros-Tato, B León, BA Graf, A Moquin… - Immunity, 2012 - cell.com
T follicular helper (Tfh) cells promote T cell-dependent humoral immune responses by
providing T cell help to B cells and by promoting germinal center (GC) formation and long …

T follicular helper cell dynamics in germinal centers

Z Shulman, AD Gitlin, S Targ, M Jankovic, G Pasqual… - Science, 2013 - science.org
T follicular helper (TFH) cells are a specialized subset of effector T cells that provide help to
and thereby select high-affinity B cells in germinal centers (GCs). To examine the dynamic …

T follicular helper cells and T follicular regulatory cells in rheumatic diseases

J Deng, Y Wei, VR Fonseca, L Graca… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
As a hallmark of autoimmune rheumatic diseases, autoantibodies have been used in
diagnosis for decades. However, the immunological mechanism underlying their generation …

Bcl6 and Maf cooperate to instruct human follicular helper CD4 T cell differentiation

MA Kroenke, D Eto, M Locci, M Cho… - The Journal of …, 2012 - journals.aai.org
Abstract Follicular helper CD4 T (Tfh) cells provide B cells with signals that are important for
the generation of high-affinity Abs and immunological memory and, therefore, are critical for …

The development and fate of follicular helper T cells defined by an IL-21 reporter mouse

K Lüthje, A Kallies, Y Shimohakamada, GT Belz… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Germinal centers require CD4+ follicular helper T cells (TFH cells), whose hallmark is
expression of the transcriptional repressor Bcl-6, the chemokine receptor CXCR5 and …

Early Th1 cell differentiation is marked by a Tfh cell-like transition

S Nakayamada, Y Kanno, H Takahashi, D Jankovic… - Immunity, 2011 - cell.com
Follicular helper T (Tfh) cells comprise an important subset of helper T cells; however, their
relationship with other helper lineages is incompletely understood. Herein, we showed …