Arginine transport via cationic amino acid transporter 2 plays a critical regulatory role in classical or alternative activation of macrophages

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 176, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 5918-5924

  Yeramian, Andrée ^a   Martin, Lorena ^b   Serrat, Neus ^a   Arpa, Luis ^a   Soler, Concepció ^a   Bertran, Joan ^b   McLeod, Carol ^c   Palacín, Manuel ^b   Modolell, Manuel ^d   Lloberas, Jorge ^a   Celada, Antonio ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^e BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ARGINASE; ARGININE; CYTOKINE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SLC7A1 GENE; SLC7A2 GENE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 33646467053     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.10.5918     Document Type: Article

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