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Are fat NKT cells born that way?

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The authors would like to thank L Denzin, P Darcy, S Zhang, and A Krzyzanowska for review of the manuscript, and D Powell for review of the figures. Both authors are supported by the NIAID of the US National Institutes of Health R01 AI083988 and AI059739 to DBS), and by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (67038 to the Child Health Institute of New Jersey). Joshua Vieth is supported by the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Fellowship and by Century for the Cure (Fellowship in Translational Immunology).

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Vieth, J., Sant'Angelo, D. Are fat NKT cells born that way?. Cell Mol Immunol 14, 658–661 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/cmi.2017.42

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