{"id":581834,"date":"2019-02-19T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/02\/190219091612.htm"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:16:12","slug":"revealed-how-the-iron-man-of-immune-cells-helps-t-cells-fight-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=581834","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: How the &#8216;Iron Man&#8217; of immune cells helps T cells fight infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The immune system&#8217;s killer T cells are crucial in fighting viral infections. A fraction of them &#8211; memory cells &#8211; live on once infection is controlled in order to fight re-infection by the same virus. They are of great interest as the basis of T cell-based vaccination and immunotherapies. Now, scientists have revealed the mechanisms by which other immune cells called &#8216;helper T cells&#8217; are able to provide the support needed to keep memory cells functioning optimally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immune system&#8217;s killer T cells are crucial in fighting viral infections. A fraction of them &#8211; memory cells &#8211; live on once infection is controlled in order to fight re-infection by the same virus. They are of great interest as the basis of T cell-ba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581835,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581834\/revisions\/581835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}