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SUBMITTER: Lee SW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6176072 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Sung Won SW Park Hyun Jung HJ Cheon Jae Hee JH Wu Lan L Van Kaer Luc L Hong Seokmann S
Frontiers in immunology 20181002
T cells producing IFNγ play a pathogenic role in the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). To investigate the functions of CD1d-dependent invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells in experimental colitis induced in Yeti mice with dysregulated expression of IFNγ, we generated iNKT cell-deficient Yeti/CD1d KO mice and compared colitis among WT, CD1d KO, Yeti, and Yeti/CD1d KO mice following DSS treatment. We found that deficiency of iNKT cells exacerbated colitis and disease pathogenesis ...[more]