Constant IFNγ mRNA to protein ratios in cord and adult blood T cells suggests regulation of IFNγ expression in cord blood T cells occurs at the transcriptional level

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 282-288

  Kumar Gupta, A ^a   Rusterholz, C ^a   Holzgreve, W ^a   Hahn, Sinuhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Cytokines; Gene regulation; IFN ; T lymphocytes; Th1 Th2

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; 5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE R; ENZYME INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS BLOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METHODOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

2-AMINOPURINE; ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; EIF-2 KINASE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FETAL BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERFERON TYPE II; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 17844396921     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2005.02758.x     Document Type: Article

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