Chromatin-based regulation of cytokine transcription in Th2 cells and mast cells

International Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1513-1524

  Monticelli, Silvia ^a,b   Lee, Dong U ^a,c   Nardone, Julie ^a,d   Bolton, Diana L ^a   Rao, Anjana ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d CELL SIGNALING TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Gene expression; Lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; RAD50 PROTEIN;

ALLERGY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STIMULATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTRON; LYMPHOID CELL; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TH2 CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 27744584107     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: 14602377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxh329     Document Type: Article

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