A role for Dicer in immune regulation

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 203, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2519-2527

  Cobb, Bradley S ^a   Hertweck, Arnulf ^a   Smith, James ^b   O'Connor, Eric ^a   Graf, Daniel ^d   Cook, Terence ^a   Smale, Stephen T ^e   Sakaguchi, Shimon ^f   Livesey, Frederick J ^b,c   Fisher, Amanda G ^a   Merkenschlager, Matthias ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME DICER; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICRORNAS; RIBONUCLEASE III; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 33750499991     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20061692     Document Type: Article

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