Choline Deficiency Causes Colonic Type II Natural Killer T (NKT) Cell Loss and Alleviates Murine Colitis under Type I NKT Cell Deficiency

Sagami, S; Ueno, Y; Tanaka, S; Fujita, A; Niitsu, H; Hayashi, R; Hyogo, H; Hinoi, T; Kitadai, Y; Chayama, K

Sagami, S (reprint author), Hiroshima Univ, Dept Med & Mol Sci, Hiroshima, Japan.; Ueno, Y (reprint author), Hiroshima Univ Hosp, Dept Endoscopy, Hiroshima, Japan.

PLOS ONE, 2017; 12 (1):

Abstract

Serum levels of choline and its derivatives are lower in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than in healthy individuals. However, the effe......

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