Guardians of the oral barriers.

Published in: The Journal of experimental medicine (2023)

The oral mucosa serves as a frontline defense against many infections. Stolley et al. (2023. J. Exp. Med.https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20221853) discovered that the oral mucosa houses CD8+ CD103+ resident memory T cells, which are important for protecting against local viral infections in mice.

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