Environmental and intrinsic factors lead to antigen unresponsiveness in CD4+ recent thymic emigrants from aged mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1321-1331

  Clise Dwyer, Karen ^a   Huston, Gail E ^a   Buck, Amanda L ^a   Duso, Debra K ^a   Swain, Susan L ^a  

^a TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; INTERLEUKIN 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EFFECTOR CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 33846487547     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.3.1321     Document Type: Article

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