Tolerance in Tcr/Cognate Antigen Double-Transgenic Mice Mediated By Incomplete Thymic Deletion and Peripheral Receptor Downregulation

Developmental Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 299-315

  Mamalaki, Clio ^a   Murdjeva, Marianna ^b   Tolaini, Mauro ^b   Norton, Trisha ^b   Chandler, Phillip ^c   Simpson, Elizabeth ^c   Townsend, Alain ^d   Kioussis, Dimitris ^b  

^a Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

deletion; double transgenic mice; F5 TCR; nucleoprotein; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; NUCLEOPROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD44; ANTIGENS, CD8; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029878314     PISSN: 10446672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1995/54219     Document Type: Article

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