Pinning allergies on pathogenic TH2 cells

Sci Transl Med. 2017 Aug 2;9(401):eaao0392. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aao0392.

Abstract

A new proinflammatory subtype of antigen-specific TH2 cell that expresses CD161 emerges as the pathogenic cell type in allergic disease and is deleted during allergen-specific immunotherapy (Wambre et al, this issue).

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Humans
  • Hypersensitivity / immunology*
  • Models, Immunological
  • Th2 Cells / immunology*