Intraepithelial lymphocytes: Their shared and divergent immunological behaviors in the small and large intestine

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 136-153

  Kunisawa, Jun ^a   Takahashi, Ichiro ^b   Kiyono, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classical and non classical MHC; Development trafficking; Intraepithelial T lymphocyte (IEL); Small and large intestines

Indexed keywords

FC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTEGRIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; INTESTINE CELL; LARGE INTESTINE; MEMORY CELL; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 33846798312     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2006.00475.x     Document Type: Review

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