Tregs in fibrosis: To know your enemy, you must become your enemy

Suzanne M Bal1, Ralph Stadhouders2,3

  • 1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Science Immunology
|September 8, 2019
PubMed

T helper 2-skewed regulatory T cells in the skin use GATA3 to suppress local profibrotic type 2 cytokine production. See the related Research Article by Kalekar et al.

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