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From the Deep Sea to Everywhere: Environmental Antigens for iNKT Cells.
Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis - 1 Aug 2016
Wingender Gerhard
Abstract excerpt
Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are a unique subset of innate T cells that share features with innate NK cells and adaptive memory T cells. The first iNKT cell antigen described was found 1993 in a marine sponge and it took over 10 years for other, bacterial antigens to be described. Given the paucity of known bacterial iNKT cell antigens, it appeared as if iNKT cells play a very specialist role in the...
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