Choline Deficiency Causes Colonic Type II Natural Killer T (NKT) Cell Loss and Alleviates Murine Colitis under Type I NKT Cell Deficiency

• Shintaro Sagami ,

  * E-mail: jaken1013@live.jp (SS); yueno@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (YU)

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Yoshitaka Ueno ,

  * E-mail: jaken1013@live.jp (SS); yueno@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (YU)

  Affiliation Department of Endoscopy, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Shinji Tanaka,

  Affiliation Department of Endoscopy, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Akira Fujita,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Hiroaki Niitsu,

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Applied Life Sciences, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Ryohei Hayashi,

  Affiliation Department of Endoscopy, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Hideyuki Hyogo,

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hiroshima General Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Takao Hinoi,

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Applied Life Sciences, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Department of Surgery, Institute for Clinical Research, National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chu-goku Cancer Center, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Yasuhiko Kitadai,

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Kazuaki Chayama

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

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