A minimal IFN-γ promoter confers Th1 selective expression

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 169, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 4205-4212

  Soutto, Mohammed ^a   Zhang, Feng ^a   Enerson, Ben ^a   Tong, Yingkai ^a   Boothby, Mark ^a   Aune, Thomas M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE SILENCING; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 0037108597     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.8.4205     Document Type: Article

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