An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Restriction of in vitro T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in lymphocytic choriomeningitis within a syngeneic or semiallogeneic system.

Nature, 248, 701-702, 1974.

Doherty and Zinkernagel discovered how a class of white blood cells known as T cells kill virus-infected cells in the body, and so present the spread of viruses. 

In 1998 Zinkernagel and Doherty were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence." 



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › Immunization, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , VIROLOGY
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