The physiological role of regulatory T cells in the prevention of autoimmunity: The function of the thymus in the generation of the regulatory T cell subset

Immunological Reviews

Volumn , Issue 149, 1996, Pages 195-216

  Saoudi, Abdelhadi ^a   Seddon, Ben ^a   Heath, Victoria ^a   Fowell, Deborah ^a,b   Mason, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SELECTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLONAL ANERGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXON; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYROIDITIS; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INSULIN; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RATS; SELF TOLERANCE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0029659056     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1996.tb00905.x     Document Type: Review

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