Genetic reprogramming of primary human T cells reveals functional plasticity in Th cell differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 171, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3542-3549

  Sundrud, Mark S ^a   Grill, Stacy M ^a   Ni, Donghui ^b   Nagata, Kinya ^c   Alkan, Sefik S ^b   Subramaniam, Arun ^b   Unutmaz, Derya ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SANOFI   (France)

^c Kawagoe shi   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR BETA2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; EFFECTOR CELL; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MEMORY CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; UPREGULATION;

EID: 0141920622     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.7.3542     Document Type: Article

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