“…Recent studies from several groups revealed that HSA plays a major role in regulating interaction between T and B lymphocytes (12,19,28,29), T-cell clonal expansion (10,18,29), and induction of immunological memory (30,41). The expression of HSA is largely restricted to cells of hematopoietic (1,5,34,36) and neuronal (19,36) origins. Among the hematopoietic cells, HSA is expressed on a variety of cell types, including erythrocytes (39), thymocytes (5), B cells (5,19,29,36), macrophages (8), and Langerhans cells (10).…”