Cutting edge: Chronic intestinal inflammation in STAT-4 transgenic mice: Characterization of disease and adoptive transfer by TNF- plus IFN-γ- producing CD4+ T cells that respond to bacterial antigens

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1884-1888

  Wirtz, Stefan ^a   Finotto, Susetta ^a   Kanzler, Stephan ^a   Lohse, Ansgar W ^a   Blessing, Manfred ^a   Lehr, Hans A ^a   Galle, Peter R ^a   Neurath, Markus F ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROPHENOL; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CD28 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; STAT4 PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENTERITIS; HELPER CELL; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCID MOUSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYTOKINES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HAPTENS; HEMOCYANIN; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, SCID; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0033558364     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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