Expression profiling of autoimmune regulator AIRE mRNA in a comprehensive set of human normal and neoplastic tissues

Immunology Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 172-179

  Klamp, Thorsten ^a   Sahin, Ugur ^a   Kyewski, Bruno ^b   Schwendemann, Jochen ^b   Dhaene, Karl ^c   Türeci, Özlem ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c Algemeen Stedelijk Ziekenhuis   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AIRE; Autoimmunity; Expression analysis; Hypomethylation

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY CANDIDIASIS ECTODERMAL DYSTROPHY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPH NODE; METHYLATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMOCYTE; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASMS; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33747091587     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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