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Elevated proportion of natural killer T cells in periodontitis lesions: a common feature of chronic inflammatory diseases.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Apr 2001
Yamazaki K, Ohsawa Y, Yoshie H
Abstract excerpt
Although periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by a group of so-called periodontopathic bacteria, autoimmune mechanisms have also been implicated in the disease process. Recently, a unique subset of lymphocytes designated natural killer (NK) T cells expressing the Valpha24JalphaQ invariant T cell receptor (TCR) has been reported to have a regulatory role in certain autoimmune diseases. Therefore,...
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