Low numbers of regulatory T cells in common variable immunodeficiency: Association with chronic inflammation in vivo

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 521-525

  Fevang, B ^a   Yndestad, A ^b   Sandberg, W J ^b   Holm, A M ^b   Muller F ^b   Aukrust, P ^b   Froland S S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Chronic inflammation; Common variable immunodeficiency; FoxP3; Regulatory T cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CELL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEOPTERIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRONCHIECTASIS; CD3+ T CELL; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLENOMEGALY; STAINING; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 33846796078     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2006.03314.x     Document Type: Article

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