Functional alterations of liver innate i
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Toshinobu Kawabata; Manabu Kinoshita; Akihito Inatsu; Yoshiko Habu; Hiroyuki Nak
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Immune functions of liver natural killer T (NKT) cells induced by the synthetic ligand β£-galactosylceramide enhanced age-dependently; hepatic injury and multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS) induced by ligand-activated NKT cells were also enhanced. This study investigated how aging affects liver in