Control of homeostatic proliferation by regulatory T cells

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3517-3526

  Shen, Shiqian ^a   Ding, Yi ^a   Tadokoro, Carlos E ^a   Olivares Villagómez, Danyvid ^a,b   Camps Ramírez, Marlin ^a   Curotto De Lafaille, Maria A ^a   Lafaille, Juan J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD44; ANTIGENS, CD5; APOPTOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, RAG-1; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIGANDS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 31044431958     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI25463     Document Type: Article

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