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A Strategy for the Study of IL-9-Producing Lymphoid Cells in the Nippostrongylus brasiliensis Infection Model
Published on: March 3, 2023
To the nines: IL-9 boosts T cell function
Elizabeth Wickman1, Maksim Mamonkin1
1Columbia Initiative in Cell Engineering and Therapy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
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IL-9 is canonically associated with anti-helminth and allergic immunity. However, in this issue of Immunity, Jiang et al. and Castelli et al. demonstrate how integrating IL-9 signaling in T cells enhances their persistence and anti-tumor function in solid cancer models.
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