IL-23 Promotes Maintenance but Not Commitment to the Th17 Lineage

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IL-23 plays a critical role establishing inflammatory immunity and enhancing IL-17 production in vivo. However, an understanding of how it performs those functions has been elusive. In this report, using an IL-17-capture technique, we demonstrate that IL-23 maintains the IL-17-secreting phenotype of purified IL-17(+) cells without affecting cell expansion or survival. IL-23 maintains the Th17 phenotype over...

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