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Paradoxically high resistance of natural killer T (NKT) cell-deficient mice to Legionella pneumophila: another aspect of NKT cells for modulation of host responses

Hayakawa, Kayoko, Tateda, Kazuhiro, Fuse, Etsu T., Matsumoto, Tetsuya, Akasaka, Yoshikiyo, Ishii, Toshiharu, Nakayama, Toshinori, Taniguchi, Masaru, Kaku, Mitsuo, Standiford, Theodore J., Yamaguchi, Keizo

Journal of Medical Microbiology 2008; 57(11):1340 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47747-0

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Abstract

1 Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University, School of Medicine, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan

2 Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

3 Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

4 Department of Pathology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

5 Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

6 Laboratory of Immune Regulation, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama, Japan

7 Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0360, USA