The transcription factor NF-ATc1 regulates lymphocyte proliferation and Th2 cytokine production

Immunity

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-124

  Yoshida, Hiroki ^a   Nishina, Hiroshi ^a   Takimoto, Hiroaki ^a   Marengère, Luc E M ^a   Wakeham, Andrew C ^a   Bouchard, Denis ^a   Kong, Young Yun ^a   Ohteki, Toshiaki ^a   Shahinian, Arda ^a   Bachmann, Martin ^a   Ohashi, Pamela S ^a   Penninger, Josef M ^a   Crabtree, Gerald R ^b   Mak, Tak W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GROWTH REGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031951071     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80464-1     Document Type: Article

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