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Cutting edge: critical role of intracellular osteopontin in antifungal innate immune responses.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jan 2011
Inoue Makoto, Moriwaki Yasuhiro, Arikawa Tomohiro, Chen Yu-Hsun, Oh Young Joo, Oliver Timothy, Shinohara Mari L
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We found that absence of osteopontin (OPN) in immunocompromised Rag2(-/-) mice, which lack T and B cells, made the mice extremely susceptible to an opportunistic fungus Pneumocystis, although immunocompetent OPN-deficient mice could clear Pneumocystis as well as wild-type mice. OPN has been studi...
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