Glossary of HIV/AIDS Terms
This glossary contains 1,600 terms and is maintained by the editors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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memory cell: a long-lived B cell or T cell that is specialized to recognize and respond to a specific pathogen; memory cells remain in the body after an initial immune response, and are primed to respond to a subsequent attack by the same invader. Compare with naive T cell.