http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/05/18/nkt-therapeutics-aims-for-severe-asthma-targeting-natural-killer-t-cells/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:54:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/05/18/nkt-therapeutics-aims-for-severe-asthma-targeting-natural-killer-t-cells/comment-page-1/#comment-132784 Leif Kring Mon, 17 May 2010 18:58:23 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=25069#comment-132784 Researchers at Karolinska Intitute in Stockholm have linked NKT cells to auto immune diseases, i.e. a lack of them make the B-cells attack body tissue. This clearly indicates that removing the NKT cells will increase the risk of getting an auto immune disease! See ”Invariant NKT cells limit activation of autoreactive CD1d-positive B cells”, Fredrik Wermeling, Sara M. Lind, Emilie Domange Jordö, Susanna L. Cardell & Mikael C.I. Karlsson, Journal of Experimental Medicine, online 3 May 2010, doi: 10.1084/jem.20091314, paper issue 10 May 2010, Vol. 207, No. 5. Researchers at Karolinska Intitute in Stockholm have linked NKT cells to auto immune diseases, i.e. a lack of them make the B-cells attack body tissue. This clearly indicates that removing the NKT cells will increase the risk of getting an auto immune disease! See ”Invariant NKT cells limit activation of autoreactive CD1d-positive B cells”, Fredrik Wermeling, Sara M. Lind, Emilie Domange Jordö, Susanna L. Cardell & Mikael C.I. Karlsson, Journal of Experimental Medicine, online 3 May 2010, doi: 10.1084/jem.20091314, paper issue 10 May 2010, Vol. 207, No. 5.

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