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Bart N Lambrecht1, Hamida Hammad2
1VIB Inflammation Research Center, University of Ghent, 9000 Gent, Belgium; Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
A study by Halim and Steer (2014) in this issue of Immunity shows that innate lymphoid cells type 2 (ILC2s) are crucial for inducing adaptive T helper 2 immunity by providing interleukin-13. Another study by van Dyken et al. (2014) shows that ILC2s control eosinophilia and alternative activation of macrophages.
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