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Helper T-cell
For Helper T-cell we have a term and definition in Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Helper T-cell (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) 
An important part of the IMMUNE SYSTEM. HELPER T-CELLS are what your body uses to identify germs. When HIV finds a HELPER T-CELL it sneaks inside the cell and forces the cell to make more HIV. After a while many copies of HIV burst out of the cell, killing it. The new copies of HIV go find more HELPER T-CELLS. Eventually, HIV starts killing HELPER T-CELLS faster than your body can make them. This is how someone gets AIDS. Without HELPER T-CELLS, all kinds of germs that your body could normally fight off can grow and multiply, and make you very sick or even dead.
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