Aire regulates negative selection of organ-specific T cells

Nature Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 350-354

  Liston, Adrian ^a   Lesage, Sylvie ^a   Wilson, Judith ^a   Peltonen, Leena ^b   Goodnow, Christopher C ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CELL ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY CANDIDIASIS ECTODERMAL DYSTROPHY; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL FATE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONAL DELETION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PANCREAS; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037383758     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni906     Document Type: Article

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