Galectin-9 Ameliorates Clinical Severity of MRL/lpr Lupus-Prone Mice by Inducing Plasma Cell Apoptosis Independently of Tim-3

• Masahiro Moritoki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masahiro Moritoki, Takeshi Kadowaki

  Affiliation Department of Cardiorenal and Cerebrovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Takeshi Kadowaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masahiro Moritoki, Takeshi Kadowaki

  Affiliations Department of Immunology and Immunopathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan, Department of Holistic Immunology, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Toshiro Niki,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Immunopathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Daisuke Nakano,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Genichiro Soma,

  Affiliation Department of Holistic Immunology, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Hirohito Mori,

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Hideki Kobara,

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Tsutomu Masaki,

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Masakazu Kohno,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiorenal and Cerebrovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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• Mitsuomi Hirashima

  * E-mail: mitsuomi@kms.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Immunology and Immunopathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan, Department of Gastroenterology and Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

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