α-Galactosylceramide-activated Vα14 natural killer T cells mediate protection against murine malaria

Natural killer T (NKT) cells are a unique population of lymphocytes that coexpress a semiinvariant T cell and natural killer cell receptors, which are particularly abundant in the liver. To investigate the possible effect of these cells on the development of the liver stages of malaria parasites, a...

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Main Authors: Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza, Gloria, de Oliveira, Camila, Tomaska, Margaret, Hong, Seokmann, Bruna-Romero, Oscar, Nakayama, Toshinori, Taniguchi, Masaru, Bendelac, Albert, Van Kaer, Luc, Koezuka, Yasuhiko, Tsuji, Moriya
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The National Academy of Sciences 2000
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC26970/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10900007
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