This study was supported by a grant from the Project of Liaoning Province Natural Science Foundation (No. 2007225013).
Background Activation in vitro of natural killer T (NKT) cells in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with a-galactosylceramide (a-GalCer) and dendritic cells (DC) may affect the immunoregulatory role of NKT ce...