Researchers From La Jolla Institute And Albany Medical College Identify Cell Group Key To Lyme Disease Arthritis

A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Albany Medical College has illuminated the important role of natural killer (NK) T cells in Lyme disease, demonstrating that the once little understood white blood cells are central to clearing the bacterial infection and reducing the intensity and duration of arthritis associated with Lyme disease.

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Filed under: Arthritis on December 4th, 2008