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T helper-17 cells, which are involved in immune responses, arise from a pool of precursor cells. It emerges that their differentiation is partly mediated by the IL-21 protein, which originates from the helper cells themselves.

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Figure 1: Development of the TH17-cell lineage.

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  1. Matthew T. Palmer and Casey T. Weaver are in the Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-2170, USA. cweaver@uab.edu,
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Palmer, M., Weaver, C. Narcissistic helpers.Nature 448, 416–417 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448416a

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