Immune understudies combat lupus
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Immune understudies combat lupus
Immune understudies combat lupus Regulatory T (T reg) cells calm the immune system and thwart attacks on the body's own tissues. On page 793 Dai et al. report that another T cell type performs a similar job and might serve as a backup to impaired T reg cells in autoimmune diseases. The cells could provide a new way to treat diseases such as lupus. The researchers were investigating a puzzling v...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1540-9538,0022-1007
DOI: 10.1084/jem.2064iti1