Cellular mechanisms that maintain neonatally-induced tolerance of class II alloantigens: Evidence that precursor cytotoxic T cells are present but silenced

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1515-1526

  Matriano, James A ^a   Socarras, Sandra ^b   Streilein, J Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; TOLEROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOGRAFT; ALLOIMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKIN GRAFT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0028047938     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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