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Mycobacterium tuberculosis directs T helper 2 cell differentiation by inducing interleukin-1β production in dendritic cells.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 28 Sept 2012
Dwivedi Ved Prakash, Bhattacharya Debapriya, Chatterjee Samit, Prasad Durbaka Vijay Raghva, Chattopadhyay Debprasad, Van Kaer Luc, Bishai William R, Das Gobardhan
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), resides and replicates within phagocytes and persists in susceptible hosts by modulating protective innate immune responses. Furthermore, M. tuberculosis promotes T helper 2 (Th2) immune responses by altering the balance of T cell polarizing cytokines in infected cells. However, cytokines that regulate Th2 cell differentiation during TB...
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