IL-12, but not IFN-α, promotes STAT4 activation and Th1 development in murine CD4+ T cells expressing a chimeric murine/human Stat2 gene

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 294-301

  Persky, Meredith E ^a   Murphy, Kenneth M ^b   Farrar, J David ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; STAT2 PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EMBRYO CELL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL;

EID: 10844291719     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.1.294     Document Type: Article

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