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Nature Medicine 14, 609 - 610 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0608-609
Lung NKT cell commotion takes your breath away
Sebastian Joyce1 & Luc Van Kaer1
- Sebastian Joyce and Luc Van Kaer are in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA.
Abstract
Infectious agents can induce inflammatory lung disease akin to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Work in a new mouse model provides mechanistic insight into this process and uncovers a key role for invariant natural killer T cells (pages 633–640).
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