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. 2018 Jul 17;49(1):16-18.
doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.07.002.

Getting a Taste for Parasites in the Gut

P'ng Loke  1 , Ken Cadwell  2
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Getting a Taste for Parasites in the Gut

P'ng Loke et al. Immunity. .
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Abstract

How type 2 immune responses are initiated is obscure. Nadjsombati et al. (2018), along with two other studies (Lei et al., 2018; Schneider et al., 2018), show that tuft cells can initiate type 2 responses by recognizing the metabolite succinate produced by intestinal parasites.

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