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From Lysosomal Storage Diseases to NKT Cell Activation and Back.
International journal of molecular sciences - 25 Feb 2017
Pereira Cátia S, Ribeiro Helena, Macedo M Fatima
Abstract excerpt
Lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) are inherited metabolic disorders characterized by the accumulation of different types of substrates in the lysosome. With a multisystemic involvement, LSDs often present a very broad clinical spectrum. In many LSDs, alterations of the immune system were described. Special emphasis was given to Natural Killer T (NKT) cells, a population of lipid-specific T cells that is activated...
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