Invariant natural killer T cells in asthma and COPD: back to square one!
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center at Harlem Hospital, New York, NY, USA; san14@columbia.edu
Recent studies have suggested the possibility of invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT) playing an important role in the pathogenesis of asthma. To explore this hypothesis, the authors measured the numbers of iNKT in the airways of patients with stable mild/moderate asthma, patients with stable or exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and controls.
Cells from induced …
