Regulatory T cells mediate maternal tolerance to the fetus

Nature Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 266-271

  Aluvihare, Varuna R ^a,b   Kallikourdis, Marinos ^a   Betz, Alexander G ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BREEDING; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MALE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; METABOLISM; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FETUS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; ISOANTIGENS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; UTERUS;

EID: 1542287265     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1037     Document Type: Article

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