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Regulatory T cells: recommendations to simplify the nomenclature

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  1. Abul K Abbas, Christophe Benoist, Jeffrey A Bluestone, Daniel J Campbell, Sankar Ghosh, Shohei Hori, Shuiping Jiang, Vijay K Kuchroo, Diane Mathis, Maria Grazia Roncarolo, Alexander Rudensky, Shimon Sakaguchi, Ethan M Shevach, Dario A A Vignali and Steve F Ziegler: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Abul K Abbas

  2. Division of Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Christophe Benoist & Diane Mathis

  3. Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Jeffrey A Bluestone

  4. Immunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Daniel J Campbell & Steve F Ziegler

  5. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA

    Sankar Ghosh

  6. Research Unit for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama, Japan

    Shohei Hori

  7. Immunis Clinic, Beijing, China

    Shuiping Jiang

  8. Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Vijay K Kuchroo

  9. Division of Regenerative Medicine, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Stem Cells and Gene Therapy, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

    Maria Grazia Roncarolo

  10. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Alexander Rudensky

  11. Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier Initiative Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Shimon Sakaguchi

  12. Laboratory of Immunology, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Ethan M Shevach

  13. Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

    Dario A A Vignali

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Abbas, A., Benoist, C., Bluestone, J. et al. Regulatory T cells: recommendations to simplify the nomenclature. Nat Immunol 14, 307–308 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2554

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