IELs: Enforcing law and order in the court of the intestinal epithelium

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 206, Issue , 2005, Pages 114-131

  Cheroutre, Hilde ^a  

^a LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MEMORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 23344451487     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2005.00284.x     Document Type: Review

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