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Nature Immunology 9, 1323 - 1325 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ni1208-1323

Alternative lifestyles of T cells

Cristina M Tato1 & Daniel J Cua1

  1. Cristina M. Tato and Daniel J. Cua are with Schering-Plough Biopharma, DNAX Research, Palo Alto, California, 94304 USA.
    e-mail: daniel.cua@spcorp.com


T cells are intrinsically more malleable than previously thought. Two studies now show that existing T helper type 2 cells can be converted into alternative CD4+ T helper cells that coexpress interleukins 9 and 10.

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