Asthma - New View of Article Critique

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Examination of specimens from these subjects showed that NKT cells were virtually absent in the lungs of the healthy subjects and those with sarcoidosis, while at least two-thirds of the asthma patients' pulmonary T-cells were actually NKT cells, not conventional Th2 cells. Evidently, NKT cells create cytokines, just as T-cells do, but additionally induce asthma, whereas normal T-cells do not. Just how the NKT cells create asthma is still not clear, but this finding leads the way to developing new therapies that may cure asthma.
This answered the question of "how do you try to fight the disease?" (Conger 1)

Future investigations will examine whether therapies that target NKT cells will eliminate asthma. This study is believed by other reviewers to have been "elegant" and essential to on-going research. (Wood 1)

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