Immunologic immaturity, but high IL-4 productivity, of murine neonatal thymic CD4 single-positive T cells in the last stage of maturation

International Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 315-326

  Koyanagi, Madoka ^a   Imanishi, Ken'ichi ^a   Arimura, Yutaka ^a   Kato, Hidehito ^a   Yagi, Junji ^a   Uchiyama, Takehiko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anergy; Cytokine; Neonate; Th1 Th2 cell; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH2 CELL; THERMOSTABILITY; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROTOXINS; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; SPLEEN; TH2 CELLS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 1042269476     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxh027     Document Type: Article

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