T KILLER CELLS at Medical Glossary

What is it? A major component of cytotoxic lymphocyte response (CTL), responsible for lysing infected or cancerous cells, T killer cells (not to be confused by natural killer cells) are a subset of CD8+ lymphocytes.

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