Cyclosporin A-induced autologous graft-versus-host disease: A prototypical model of autoimmunity and active (dominant) tolerance coordinately induced by recent thymic emigrants

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 6926-6933

  Wu, Dianna Y ^a   Goldschneider, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; THY 1 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPH NODE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL MOVEMENT; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KINETICS; LYMPH NODES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033152075     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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