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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Ali Jabbari
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-45657 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Xing Luzhou L Dai Zhenpeng Z Jabbari Ali A Cerise Jane E JE Higgins Claire A CA Gong Weijuan W de Jong Annemieke A Harel Sivan S DeStefano Gina M GM Rothman Lisa L Singh Pallavi P Petukhova Lynn L Mackay-Wiggan Julian J Christiano Angela M AM Clynes Raphael R
Nature medicine 20140817 9
Alopecia areata (AA) is a common autoimmune disease resulting from damage of the hair follicle by T cells. The immune pathways required for autoreactive T cell activation in AA are not defined limiting clinical development of rational targeted therapies. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) implicated ligands for the NKG2D receptor (product of the KLRK1 gene) in disease pathogenesis. Here, we show that cytotoxic CD8(+)NKG2D(+) T cells are both necessary and sufficient for the induction of AA i ...[more]