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Helping and harming have something in common

The multifarious fates of CD4+ T helper cells mediate helpful and harmful immunity. An unexpected kinship between 'harmful' interleukin 17–producing T helper cells and 'helpful' follicular T helper cells has now been found.

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Figure 1: Generating diversity in the CD4+ T cell response.

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Debes, G., Reiner, S. Helping and harming have something in common. Nat Immunol 10, 138–140 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0209-138

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