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Contact: Jordan Reese
jreese@upenn.edu
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University of Pennsylvania

Visualization of Brain Immune Response

Caption: To understand lymphocyte behavior in the brain, we used two-photon microscopy to visualize effector CD8+ Tcells during toxoplasmic encephalitis. These cells displayed multiple behaviors with two distinct populations of cells apparent: one with a constrained pattern of migration and one with a highly migratory subset.

Credit: Chris Hunter, University of Pennsylvania

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