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Basophils have long been suspected to be potent inducers of T helper type 2 differentiation. Sokol and colleagues now demonstrate that basophils are required for adoption of the T helper type 2 fate in vivo in response to allergens with protease activity.

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Figure 1: Model of basophil-mediated TH2 differentiation.

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  1. Booki Min is in the Department of Immunology at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,
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  2. William E. Paul is with the Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. wpaul@niaid.nih.gov,
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Min, B., Paul, W. Basophils: in the spotlight at last.Nat Immunol 9, 223–225 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0308-223

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