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SUBMITTER: Papotto PH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5666615 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Papotto Pedro H PH Gonçalves-Sousa Natacha N Schmolka Nina N Iseppon Andrea A Mensurado Sofia S Stockinger Brigitta B Ribot Julie C JC Silva-Santos Bruno B
EMBO reports 20170830 11
Pro-inflammatory interleukin (IL)-17-producing γδ (γδ17) T cells are thought to develop exclusively in the thymus during fetal/perinatal life, as adult bone marrow precursors fail to generate γδ17 T cells under homeostatic conditions. Here, we employ a model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in which hematopoiesis is reset by bone marrow transplantation and demonstrate unequivocally that Vγ4<sup>+</sup> γδ17 T cells can develop <i>de novo</i> in draining lymph nodes in response ...[more]