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The expanding TH2 universe

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TH2 growth factors, which are involved in allergy and in defence against parasites, are produced by many different cell types, including a newly identified population found in fat-associated lymph clusters in the abdomen.

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Figure 1: Newly discovered 'natural helper cells'.

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  1. Warren Strober is in the Laboratory of Host Defenses, Mucosal Immunity Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. wstrober@niaid.nih.gov ,

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Strober, W. The expanding TH2 universe. Nature 463, 434–435 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463434a

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