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A defect in lineage fate decision during fetal thymic invariant NKT cell development may regulate susceptibility to type 1 diabetes.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jun 2005
Wagner Melany J D, Hussain Shabbir, Mehan Mala, Verdi Joseph M, Delovitch Terry L
Abstract excerpt
A numerical and functional deficiency in invariant NKT (iNKT) cells detectable by 3 wk of age in the thymus and spleen mediates the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes in NOD mice, but the stage of T cell development at which this deficiency first occurs is unknown. We report in this study that this deficiency develops after the CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive stage of thymic T cell development and is due to a...
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