Human small intestinal epithelial cells secrete interleukin-7 and differentially express two different interleukin-7 mRNA transcripts: Implications for extrathymic T-cell differentiation

Human Immunology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 83-90

  Madrigal Estebas, Laura ^a   McManus, Ross ^b   Byrne, Brendan ^a   Lynch, Sara ^c   Doherty, Derek G ^a   Kelleher, Dermot ^b   O'Donoghue, Diarmuid P ^a   Feighery, Conleth ^c   O'Farrelly, Cliona ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7; MESSENGER RNA;

ACCESSORY CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CELL STRAIN K 562; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

BIOPSY; BONE MARROW CELLS; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; COLON; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; INTESTINE, SMALL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031417949     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-8859(97)00230-9     Document Type: Article

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