Endothelial cells, megakaryoblasts, platelets and alveolar epithelial cells express abundant levels of the mouse AA4 antigen, a C-type lectin-like receptor involved in homing activities and innate immune host defense

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1370-1381

  Dean, Yann D ^a   McGreal, Eamon P ^a   Gasque, Philippe ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Complement; Innate; Phagocytosis; Thrombomodulin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q RECEPTOR; GLYCOSYLATED PROTEIN; LECTIN RECEPTOR; THROMBOMODULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE LOCATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEGAKARYOBLAST; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE; UTERUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, CD44; BLOOD PLATELETS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNE SERA; LOD SCORE; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELOID CELLS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT; RNA, MESSENGER; THROMBOMODULIN;

EID: 0035008074     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200105)31:5<1370::AID-IMMU1370>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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