How Does Cross-Reactive Stimulation Affect the Longevity of CD8+ T Cell Memory?
Figure 5
Variance of the Natural Logarithm of Size of Memory Lineages as the Function of the Number of Exposures in the Absence (squares,
0) and Presence (diamonds,
) of Variation in Cross-Reactivity between Different Memory Lineages
Other parameters are the same as in Figure 2B and 2D, and the mean cross-reactivity is kept the same at g ≈ 2 · 10−3. Lines show the predictions according to Equation 9, and
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