The shaping of the brain-specific T lymphocyte repertoire in the thymus

Immunological Reviews

Volumn , Issue 149, 1996, Pages 231-243

  Wekerle, Hartmut ^a   Bradl, Monika ^a   Linington, Christopher ^a   Kääb, Georg ^a   Kojima, Kimikazu ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRAIN DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONAL ANERGY; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; ENCEPHALITIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFLAMMATION; LIVER CELL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; IMMUNOLOGY; LEWIS RAT; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; RAT;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; MICE; MICE, SCID; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SELF TOLERANCE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0029659055     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1996.tb00907.x     Document Type: Review

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