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ATTEMPTS to identify an easily measured cell surface marker that would detect activation of T or B lymphocytes in a variety of species have been unsuccessful. Although insulin receptors have been identified for fat, liver, skeletal and cardiac muscle, fibroblasts and monocytes1–8, quiescent rat splenic T lymphocytes do not bear such receptors. However, insulin receptors do emerge on T lymphocytes after concanavalin A treatment or allogeneic skin grafting9,10. Following our work on characterising a lymphocyte insulin receptor which participates in the modulation of immune response11, we have examined and report here the possibility that the emergence of a membrane-bound receptor for the peptide hormone insulin may be a universal marker for activated T and B lymphocytes.
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HELDERMAN, J., STROM, T. Specific insulin binding site on T and B lymphocytes as a marker of cell activation. Nature 274, 62–63 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274062a0
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