title: Lymphocytes: not useless after all.
abstract: Half a century ago, an immunologist named N. Avrion Mitchison showed that lymphocytes--then thought to be useless--triggered tumor rejection in mice.
authors.affiliation: Julie.p.clayton@blueyonder.co.uk
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clayton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000266:history / Q000276:immunology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation / Q000266:history / Q000276:immunology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000266:history / Q000276:immunology*; D014181:Transplantation Immunology / Q000276:immunology*