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Polarized effector programs for innate-like thymocytes

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Distinct lineages of natural killer T cells arise in the thymus and are characterized by the signature transcription factors T-bet, GATA-3 or RORγt.

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Figure 1: Crosstalk between adaptive thymocytes and innate-like thymocytes.

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  1. Michael G. Constantinides and Albert Bendelac are with the Committee on Immunology and Department of Pathology, Benjamin D. McDonald, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,

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McDonald, B., Constantinides, M. & Bendelac, A. Polarized effector programs for innate-like thymocytes. Nat Immunol 14, 1110–1111 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2739

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