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How MAIT cells get their start

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By taking advantage of an MR1 tetramer to accurately detect mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells in both mice and humans, researchers defined the thymic development of MAIT cells.

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Figure 1: Parallels and differences in development between MAIT cells and iNKT cells.

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  1. Haiguang Wang and Kristin A. Hogquist are at the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and the Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.,

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