Warrior Cells To Fight COVID-19!!!

Yesterday I was talking about T cells and how they are being lauded for their fighting nature. Today I thought to throw some more light on T cells. The cells are emerging as warriors and have the capacity to destroy and win over virus infected cells.              

T cells are a type of white blood cell which acts like soldiers, searching out infected cells and killing them, hence they play a crucial role in the human’s immune system. It acts as an elemental part of adaptive immunity; adaptive immunity is a system that alters the response of the immune system to particular pathogens.

The T cells which are immature are known as T-stem cells and move towards the neck area where the thymus gland lies to attain maturity and gain activity in our immune system. During maturation processes many of the T cells are destroyed by our body system as they acquire the behavior of activating against it.

These cells are also termed as T lymphocytes where T stands for thymus; thymus is the place where these cells attain maturity. Recent studies suggest that body defence system has not only one soldier to rely on and T cells are perfect reminder of this. T cells produce a stable immunogenic response that’s why it’s immunity is really necessary for our system.

T cells may be able to kill virus infected cells as they can remember old diseases like SARS-COV-2 (which came into existence in 2003) and other common cold diseases. They also have the ability to raise those cells which have been abandoned in past fights as fresh ones. There have been many studies where people show T cell response to the disease which they defeated 17 years back. 

But for right now things are uncertain as the research into T cell’s fight against COVID-19 is at young stages and nothing concrete can be evaluated from them. We have to wait a bit more for really good news that will lead to perfect vaccination of the pandemic leading our lives back to our old normal as how much perfect this new normal is, we will take time to adapt it.