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. 2013 Oct;19(10):1210-1.
doi: 10.1038/nm.3360.

NKT cells: the smoking gun in fungal-induced asthma?

Dale I Godfrey  1 , Daniel G Pellicci, Jamie Rossjohn
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NKT cells: the smoking gun in fungal-induced asthma?

Dale I Godfrey et al. Nat Med. 2013 Oct.

Abstract

Aspergillus fumigatus is a fungus that is associated with a severe form of asthma, although the precise immunological basis for this disease is unclear. A new study in mice shows that natural killer T (NKT) cells are crucial for progression of A. fumigatus–induced asthma and also identifies a glycolipid antigen from this fungus that seems to drive this NKT cell–mediated inflammatory response (pages 1297–1304).

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