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What are cytotoxic T cells for?

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Answer:

they are in our bodies to attack and kill infected cells!

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Are cytotoxic T cells a type of T cell clone?
Yes, cytotoxic T-cells are a subset of T-cells that in contrast to helpter T-cells express CD8.
What are the functions of Helper T cells and Cytotoxic T cells?
Cytotoxic T (or CD8) cells are activated in your lymph nodes by dendritic cells. Once activated they are sent out to the site of infection and they bind to the cells that express the MHC class I that...
What is the role of cytotoxic T cells?
Cytotoxic T cells destroy cancer cells. The cytoxic T cell comes into contrack with a cancer cell. The T cell recognizes that the cancer cell is "nonself" and causes the destruction of the cancer....
Who discovered cytotoxic t-cells?
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What does a cytotoxic T cell do?
A cytotoxic T cell kills cells that have been infected by a virus or bacterium. It does this by puncturing the cell's membrane and by emitting a toxin that kills cells.