Hassall's corpuscles instruct dendritic cells to induce CD4 +CD25+ regulatory T cells in human thymus

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7054, 2005, Pages 1181-1185

  Watanabe, Norihiko ^a   Wang, Yi Hong ^a   Lee, Heung Kyu ^a   Ito, Tomoki ^a   Wang, Yui Hsi ^a   Cao, Wei ^a   Liu, Yong Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; PROTEINS;

DENDRITIC CELLS; ENIGMA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; PROLIFERATION;

CELLS;

B7 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CD86 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

IMMUNE SYSTEM;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HASSALL BODY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREGULATION; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD11C; ANTIGENS, CD80; ANTIGENS, CD86; APOPTOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYSOSOME-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; THYMUS GLAND;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 24144480562     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03886     Document Type: Article

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