Acquired thymic tolerance: Role of CTLA4 in the initiation and maintenance of tolerance in a clinically relevant autoimmune disease model

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 761-765

  Issazadeh, Shohreh ^a   Zhang, ManHua ^a   Sayegh, Mohamed H ^b   Khoury, Samia J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; AUTOANTIGENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCONJUGATES; INJECTIONS, INTRALYMPHATIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; OVALBUMIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0033555417     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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