Essential autocrine regulation by IL-21 in the generation of inflammatory T cells

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7152, 2007, Pages 480-483

  Nurieva, Roza ^a   Yang, Xuexian O ^a   Martinez, Gustavo ^a   Zhang, Yongliang ^a   Panopoulos, Athanasia D ^a   Ma, Li ^b   Schluns, Kimberly ^a   Tian, Qiang ^b   Watowich, Stephanie S ^a   Jetten, Anton M ^c   Dong, Chen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 6; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR GAMMA; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

CYTOLOGY; DISEASE TREATMENT; HORMONE; IMMUNE RESPONSE;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 34547204946     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05969     Document Type: Article

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