When three is not a crowd: A Crossregulation Model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-68

  Carneiro, Jorge ^a   Leon, Kalet ^a,b   Caramalho, Íris ^a   Van Den Dool, Carline ^a   Gardner, Rui ^a   Oliveira, Vanessa ^a   Bergman, Marie Louise ^a   Sepúlveda, Nuno ^a   Paixão, Tiago ^a   Faro, Jose ^a,c   Demengeot, Jocelyne ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b CENTER OF MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY   (Cuba)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crossregulation Model; Mathematical model; Regulatory CD4+CD25+Foxp3 + T cells; Repertoire selection

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; DYNAMICS; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 33947192440     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2007.00487.x     Document Type: Review

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