immune system
• splenocytes stimulated with anti-CD3e or concanavalin A secrete ~50% of levels of Il-2 produced by wild-type cells
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• mice infected with Toxoplasma gondii survive the early infection which requires natural killer cells; compared to Itk-null and double-null mice, ~50% of animals die by 102 days, while >80% of wild-type mice survive over 18 weeks
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