NKT cells contribute to basal IL-4 production but are not required to induce experimental asthma

• Christopher G. McKnight ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher G. McKnight, Suzanne C. Morris, Charles Perkins

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mcknigcr@ucmail.uc.edu

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1831-043X

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• Suzanne C. Morris ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher G. McKnight, Suzanne C. Morris, Charles Perkins

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Charles Perkins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher G. McKnight, Suzanne C. Morris, Charles Perkins

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Zhenqi Zhu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• David A. Hildeman,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Albert Bendelac,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Committee on Immunology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Fred D. Finkelman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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