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Characterization of the pathoimmunology of necrotizing enterocolitis reveals novel therapeutic opportunities
13 Nov 2020
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Abstract Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a severe, currently untreatable intestinal disease that predominantly affects preterm infants and is driven by poorly characterized inflammatory pathways. Here, human and murine NEC intestines exhibit an unexpected predominance of type 3/TH17 polarization. In murine NEC, pro-inflammatory type 3 NKp46−RORγt+Tbet+innate lymphoid cells (ILC3) are 5-fold increased, whereas...
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