T cell responses in calcineurin Aα-deficient mice

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 413-420

  Zhang, Wei ^a,b,i   Zimmer, Greg ^c   Chen, Jianzhu ^a,b,d,h   Ladd, Daniel ^a,b   Li, En ^e   Alt, Frederick W ^a,b,d   Wiederrecht, Greg ^f   Cryan, John ^f   O'Neill, Edward A ^f   Seidman, Christine E ^a,g   Abbas, Abul K ^c   Seidman, J G ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LMRC   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CONCANAVALIN A; CYCLOSPORIN A; IONOMYCIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SERINE PHOSPHATASE; TACROLIMUS; THREONINE PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCINEURIN; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CHIMERA; CYCLOSPORINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MITOGENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVALBUMIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 13344280343     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.2.413     Document Type: Article

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