Astrocytes express elements of the class II endocytic pathway and process central nervous system autoantigen for presentation to encephalitogenic T cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 5959-5966

  Soos, Jeanne M ^a   Morrow, Jennifer ^a   Ashley, Timothy A ^a   Szente, Brian E ^b   Bikoff, Elizabeth K ^c   Zamvil, Scott S ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; ENCEPHALITOGENIC PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSACTIVATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, B-LYMPHOCYTE; ASTROCYTES; AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CATTLE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; ENDOCYTOSIS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0032403504     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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