The article “Cytotoxic immunological synapses do not restrict the action of interferon-? to antigenic target cells” by Puntel and Kroeger provides useful information to researchers, which enables them to develop and design methods of knowing how the human brain attacks and fights off tumors and viruses. It guides the research on ways to tie the immune response to attack and kill brain tumor cells.
The article is important since it provides vital information into the nature of the gasket between T cells and their target cells. The findings in the article show how T cells carry out the role of defending the body against tumor cells and thus it may help find a solution to brain tumor. The results obtained would help the researchers to build and develop experience useful in their attempt to kill the cells that cause brain cancer and at the same time spare the normal cells.
The points raised in the article are; the gasket connection focuses on the T cell attack on the infected cell and the T cells carried out its function on the targeted infected cells only. The research that was conducted did not support the notion that T cells produce a chemical called cytokine in the human brain. The research proved that cytokine secretion by the T cells was responsible for the attacks of large parts of the brain beyond the targeted cells.
The results will help understand how the brain fights infection at a molecular level (Mariana and Kurt 2012).
Works Cited
Mariana Puntel, Kurt M. Kroeger, “Cytotoxic immunological synapses do not restrict the action of interferon-? to antigenic target cells.” 2012. Biology Guild. Web.