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Border Patrol Gone Awry: Lung NKT Cell Activation by Francisella tularensis Exacerbates Tularemia-Like Disease

The respiratory mucosa is a major site for pathogen invasion and, hence, a site requiring constant immune surveillance. The type I, semi-invariant natural killer T (NKT) cells are enriched within the lung vasculature. Despite optimal positioning, the role of NKT cells in respiratory infectious disea...

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Autores principales: Hill, Timothy M., Gilchuk, Pavlo, Cicek, Basak B., Osina, Maria A., Boyd, Kelli L., Durrant, Douglas M., Metzger, Dennis W., Khanna, Kamal M., Joyce, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26068662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004975