T-Cell Immunology

T cells are a type of white blood cells that play an important role in the adaptive immune response. T cell receptors are present on the surface of T cells which distinguish them from the other cells. The T cells are formed in the bone marrow from the hematopoietic stem cells. These are the stem cells that give rise to different types of blood cells. T cells do not mature in the bone marrow. The developing cells migrate to thymus where they mature into several different types of T cells. Th...