Preferred Label : Intraepithelial T-Lymphocyte of the Intestine;
NCIt definition : A mature T lymphocyte, found in the intestinal lining that differentiates from its
precursor outside the thymus, most likely in an area of the gut identified as cryptopatch
aggregates. This cell plays a key role in cell-mediated mucosal defense, the down-regulation
of immune responses to harmless luminal antigens and in epithelial cell growth and
repair.;
Origin ID : C39613;
UMLS CUI : C1512945;
Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Semantic type(s)
- Cell [UMLS semantic type]
- is_normal_cell_origin_of_disease
