The superantigen-induced polarization of T cells in rat peripheral lymph nodes is influenced by genetic polymorphisms in the IL-4 and IL-6 gene clusters

International Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-92

  Bode, Ulrike ^a   Lörchner, Marc ^a   Pabst, Reinhard ^a   Wonigeit, Kurt ^a   Overbeck, Silke ^b   Rink, Lothar ^b   Hundrieser, Joachim ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOGENIC AGENT; SUPERANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MALE; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENDRITIC CELLS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-6; LYMPH NODES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPERANTIGENS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33845893850     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: 14602377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxl124     Document Type: Article

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