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Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 261470, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/261470
Research Article

Characterizing T Cells in SCID Patients Presenting with Reactive or Residual T Lymphocytes

Atar Lev,1,2 Amos J. Simon,1 Luba Trakhtenbrot,1,3 Itamar Goldstein,1,3 Meital Nagar,1,3 Polina Stepensky,4 Gideon Rechavi,1 Ninette Amariglio,1,3 and Raz Somech1,2

1Cancer Research Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
2Hematology Laboratory, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
3Pediatric Immunology Service of Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
4Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hadassah Medical Center, Hadassah Hebrew University, 91120 Jerusalem, Israel

Received 13 June 2012; Revised 29 July 2012; Accepted 5 August 2012

Academic Editor: George N. Goulielmos

Copyright © 2012 Atar Lev et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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