T and B lymphocytes that mediate immunologic memory; believed to retain information that permits a subsequent antigenic challenge to be followed by a more rapid efficient immunologic reaction than that seen with the first exposure.
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Cells of the immune system that 'remember' the first encounter with an antigen and facilitate the more rapid secondary response when the antigen is encountered on a subsequent occasion. The long-lasting immune memory is humoral and resides in B-lymphocytes, although it appears that persistence of the antigen may be essential. T-cell memory is shorter.
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