Resident memory T cells in lymph node. (IMAGE)

Dartmouth Health

Resident memory T cells in lymph node.

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Microscopic image of tumor-specific resident memory T cells (white) stationed throughout a mouse tumor-draining lymph node. Researchers have found this novel population of long-lived T cells that stay in lymph nodes where they provide protection against melanoma.

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Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

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