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The small lymphocytes are the cells in the body of an immunocompetent individual, which are able to initiate a specific immune response against foreign material due to their own, predetermined immune reactivity. Although these cells look strikingly similar when observed under conventional light microscopy unsurpassed heterogeneity resides in this cellpopulation as to surface markers and functional activities. Two major groups of lymphocytes comprise this diverse population, the B and the T lymphocytes (17). These two types of cells differentiate according to their own distinct pathways and no evidence exists that a T lymphocyte can convert itself into a B lymphocyte or vice versa. The functions of the B lymphocytes are seemingly not manifold, but appear to reside in their ability to produce humoral antibodies of conventional immunoglobulin type. The T lymphocytes, on the other hand, are known to express a variety of functions including killer cell activity against foreign cells, helper activity for B cells to allow the latter to make antibodies, suppression of the specific helper activity etc. (17, 19, 20).
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Wigzell, H. (1976). T Lymphocytes. In: Melchers, F., Rajewsky, K. (eds) The Immune System. Colloquium der Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81083-1_11
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