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. 2021 Apr;99(4):344-347.
doi: 10.1111/imcb.12429. Epub 2020 Dec 22.

Turning on ILC2s: diet control

Marlène Magalhaes  1 , Lucy Jackson-Jones  2 , Cécile Bénézech  3
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Turning on ILC2s: diet control

Marlène Magalhaes et al. Immunol Cell Biol. 2021 Apr.

Abstract

New research by Fali and colleagues shows that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma is a central metabolic regulator of group 2 innate lymphoid cells, controlling the functional activation of these potent innate immune initiators in lung and adipose tissue.

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