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Date of this Version

2018

Document Type

Poster

Citation

Lichter, B. (2018, April). Characterization of Metabolic Network in T-helper 2 Cells. Spring 2018 Undergraduate Poster Fair, Lincoln, NE.

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Copyright (c) 2018 Bailee Lichter

Abstract

T-helper 2 (Th2) cells function in the adaptive immune system to coordinate responses to large extracellular pathogens (Luckheerham, 2012). Th2 cells are one of the differentiated subtypes cells of CD4+ T cells. CD4+ T cells recognize foreign pathogens and differenitated in specialized subtypes to affectively destroy the pathogen (Luckheerham, 2012). Upon CD4+ T cell activation, the cells undergo metabolic reprogaming, resulting in a shift in metabolism (Almedia, 2016).

We have successfully created a Th2 metabolic network model. The Th2 metabolic network model contains 1151 genes, 2601 metabolites, and 4654 reactions.

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