Cytokine control of memory T-cell development and survival

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 269-279

  Schluns, Kimberly S ^a   Lefrançois, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIGEN; IL15RA PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 15 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MEMORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-15; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-15; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0038655228     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1052     Document Type: Review

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