RNA and protein expression of the murine autoimmune regulator gene (Aire) in normal, RelB-deficient and in NOD mouse

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1884-1893

  Heino, Maarit ^a,b   Peterson, Pärt ^a,b   Sillanpää, Niko ^a   Guérin, Sandrine ^c   Wu, Li ^d   Anderson, Graham ^e   Scott, Hamish S ^f   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^f   Kudoh, Jun ^g   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^g   Jenkinson, Eric J ^e   Naquet, Philippe ^c   Krohn, Kai J E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^g Tampere Univ/Inst of Med Technol ^*

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Mouse model; Thymus epithelial cell

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TESTIS; THYMUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; DENDRITIC CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RABBITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN; THYMUS GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033939699     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200007)30:7<1884::AID-IMMU1884>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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