Expansion of invariant natural killer T cells from systemic lupus erythematosus patients by alpha-Galactosylceramide and IL-15

• Chien-Ya Hsu ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CYH and YSC contributed equally to this work and share the first authorship.

  Affiliation Division of Asthma, Allergy, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8365-8999

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• Yu-Shan Chueh ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ CYH and YSC contributed equally to this work and share the first authorship.

  Affiliation Division of Asthma, Allergy, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Ming-Ling Kuo,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliations Division of Asthma, Allergy, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Center for Medical and Clinical Immunology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, New Taipei Municipal Tu Cheng Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Pei-Tzu Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Asthma, Allergy, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Hsiu-Shan Hsiao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Asthma, Allergy, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Jing-Long Huang ,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: syhjaelin@gmail.com (SJL); hjlong0182@gmail.com (JLH)

  Affiliations Division of Asthma, Allergy, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, New Taipei Municipal Tu Cheng Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Syh-Jae Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: syhjaelin@gmail.com (SJL); hjlong0182@gmail.com (JLH)

  Affiliation Division of Asthma, Allergy, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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