The thymus contains a high frequency of cells that prevent autoimmune diabetes on transfer into prediabetic recipients

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2393-2398

  Saoudi, Abdelhadi ^b   Seddon, Benedict ^a   Fowell, Debbie ^c   Mason, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHU PURPAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD45; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; PREDIABETIC STATE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0030442723     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.6.2393     Document Type: Article

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