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Volume 357:193-195 July 12, 2007 Number 2
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Invariant Natural Killer T Cells in Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases

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To the Editor: Vijayanand et al. (April 5 issue)1 show that fewer than 2% of the T cells from the airways of patients with asthma were invariant natural killer T cells. It is surprising that the authors consider this finding to be normal, since the frequency of invariant natural killer T cells in the peripheral blood and lungs of subjects without asthma has been reported to be much lower (see additional comments in the Supplementary Appendix, which is available with the full text of this letter at www.nejm.org). In addition, the results of six other studies differ from those . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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