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Heterogenous CD8+ T Cell Maturation and 'Polarization' in Acute and Convalescent COVID-19 Patients.

Igor V KudryavtsevNatalia A ArsentievaZoia R KorobovaDmitry V IsakovArtem A RubinshteinOleg K BatsunovIrina V KhamitovaRaisa N KuznetsovaTikhon V SavinTatiana V AkishevaOksana V StanevichAleksandra A LebedevaEvgeny A VorobyovSnejana V VorobyovaAlexander N KulikovMaria A SharapovaDmitrii E PevtsovAreg A Totolian
Published in: Viruses (2022)
We described an abnormal CD8+ T cell profile in COVID-19 convalescents, which resulted in lower frequencies of effector subsets (TEMRA and Tc1), higher senescent state (upregulated CD57 on 'naïve' and memory cells), and higher frequencies of CD8+ T cell subsets expressing lung tissue and mucosal tissue homing molecules (Tc2, Tc17, and Tc17.1). Thus, our data indicate that COVID-19 can impact the long-term CD8+ T cell immune response.
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