T cell mechanisms in experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis: Susceptibility is a function of the cytokine response profile

Eye

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-212

  Caspi, Rachel R ^a   Sun, Bing ^a   Agarwal, Rajeev K ^a   Silver, Phyllis B ^a   Rizzo, Luiz V ^a   Chan, Chi Chao ^a   Wiggert, Barbara ^a   Wilder, Ronald L ^b  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Cytokines; Experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis; T lymphocytes; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; PERTUSSIS TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL CULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETIOLOGY; HELPER CELL; LYMPH NODE CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; UVEORETINITIS;

EID: 0030928251     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1997.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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