Nature Research, Nature Medicine, 6(14), p. 609-610, 2008
DOI: 10.1038/nm0608-609
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Infectious agents can induce inflammatory lung disease akin to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Work in a new mouse model provides mechanistic insight into this process and uncovers a key role for invariant natural killer T cells (pages 633–640).