Cutting edge: IL-4-induced protection of CD4+CD25- Th cells from CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cell-mediated suppression

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 176, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 3900-3904

  Pace, Luigia ^a   Rizzo, Stefania ^a   Palombi, Cecilia ^a   Brombacher, Frank ^b   Doria, Gino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR ALPHA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOREGULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-4;

EID: 33646028831     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.7.3900     Document Type: Article

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