Soluble antigen therapy induces apoptosis of autoreactive T cells preferentially in the target organ rather than in the peripheral lymphoid organs

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1626-1635

  Ishigami, Tsuyoshi ^a   White, Catherine A ^a   Pender, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; Fas (CD95); T cell; Treatment

Indexed keywords

FAS LIGAND; FREUND ADJUVANT; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; TARGET ORGAN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; AUTOANTIGENS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; LIGANDS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SOLUBILITY; SPINAL CORD; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0031922935     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199805)28:05<1626::AID-IMMU1626>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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