cd4 meaning

• Noun: CD4
  1. A glycoprotein that is found primarily on the surface of helper T cells
     "CD4 is a receptor for HIV in humans"
     - cluster of differentiation 4

  Type of: glycoprotein

  Encyclopedia: CD4

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  [Medicine]
  n often attrib : a large glycoprotein that is found esp. on the surface of helper T cells, that is the receptor for HIV, and that usu. functions to facilitate recognition by helper T cell receptors of antigens complexed with molecules of a class that are found on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (as B cells and macrophages) and are the product of genes of the major histocompatibility complex
  

• cd4 antigen:    [Medicine]55-kD Gl ...
• cd4 antigens:    [Medicine]55-kD Gl ...
• cd4 cell:    Noun: CD4 cellT ce ...

Examples

1. progress of idiopathic cd4 t-cell lymphocytopenia
2. to correlate this pattern to hiv infected cd4 t cells
3. advances on cell cd4 cd25 t research
4. cxcr4 expression on cd4 t helper cells in hiv infection
5. the role of cd4 cd25 regulatory t cell in immune tolerance and autoimmune diseases