Pancreatic Islet Allograft Immunity and Tolerance: The Two-Signal Hypothesis Revisited

Immunological Reviews

Volumn , Issue 149, 1996, Pages 75-96

  Gill, Ronald G ^a   Coulombe, Marilyne ^a   Lafferty, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER   (United States)

^b Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; ALLOGRAFT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CELL KILLING; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

ALLOANTIGEN; ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

EID: 0029659051     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1996.tb00900.x     Document Type: Article

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