M. Reza Sulaiman
Friday, 11 September 2020 | 16:41 WIB
DNA and human body cells. (Shutterstock)
The importance of the role of T cells in the immune system, aka immunity, is no longer in doubt. Check out the explanation below.
SuaraBali.id – Importance of roles salt T in the immune system, aka immunity, there is no need to doubt. Even according to researchers, existence cell T can make someone avoid Corona Covid-19 virus infection.
Summarized by Suara.com, here are the facts about T cells and their relationship with antibody Corona Covid-19 virus.
1. Sel T versus Antibodi
T cells are part of the immune system and help protect the body from infection. While antibodies are collections of white blood cells.
Unlike the way T cells work, these white blood cell clusters thwart infection in two different ways, namely helping to spur B cells and other immune ‘defenders’ to work, while T cells will kill pathogens and destroy infected cells.
2.T cells prevent Covid-19 infection
Research published in the journal Nature found that among 68 samples of healthy adults in Germany who had not been exposed to the coronavirus, 35 percent had T cells in their blood that were reactive to the coronavirus.
T cells are part of the immune system and help protect the body from infection.
So how can their immune system have reactive T cells if they have never had Covid-19?
“The immune system may have been acquired in previous endemic coronavirus infections,” said the researchers, who consist of various institutions from Germany and the UK.
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