Imbalance towards Th1 predominance is associated with acceleration of lupus-like autoimmune syndrome in MRL mice

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1597-1604

  Takahashi, Satoru ^a   Fossati, Liliane ^a   Iwamoto, Masahiro ^a   Merino, Ramón ^a   Motta, Roland ^b   Kobayakawa, Takatoshi ^c   Izui, Shozo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Institut de Transgenose   (France)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CMU   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

autoantibody; cytokine; mutant mice; systemic lupus erythematosus; T helper subset

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUBCLASS; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0029928187     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI118584     Document Type: Article

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