title: Th1 and Th2 subsets: paradigms lost?
abstract: The T helper 1 (Th1)/Th2 model has provided a valuable framework to investigate and explain many immune reactions and now pervades current thinking on the regulatory role of T cells. However, individual T cells and clones display remarkable diversity in their cytokine profiles, collectively forming a continuous spectrum in which Th1 and Th2 cells may be only two of the possible extreme phenotypes. For these reasons, Anne Kelso argues that cytokine-producing T cells cannot be classified into discrete subsets.
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Biology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia.
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authors.lastname: Kelso
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002999:Clone Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D016207:Cytokines / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D007114:Immunization; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D018448:Models, Immunological; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets; D018417:Th1 Cells / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D018418:Th2 Cells / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines