Thymus and autoimmunity: Production of CD25+CD4+ naturally anergic and suppressive T cells as a key function of the thymus in maintaining immunologic self-tolerance

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 5317-5326

  Itoh, Misako ^a,b   Takahashi, Takeshi ^a   Sakaguchi, Noriko ^a   Kuniyasu, Yuhshi ^a   Shimizu, Jun ^a   Otsuka, Fujio ^b   Sakaguchi, Shimon ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; CLONAL ANERGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD28; ANTIGENS, CD4; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONAL ANERGY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; SELF TOLERANCE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMUS GLAND;

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