Adult human fibroblasts are potent immunoregulatory cells and functionally equivalent to mesenchymal stem cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1595-1604

  Haniffa, Muzlifah A ^a   Wang, Xiao Nong ^a   Holtick, Udo ^a   Rae, Michelle ^a   Isaacs, John D ^a   Dickinson, Anne M ^a   Hilkens, Catharien M U ^a   Collin, Matthew P ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FIBROBLAST; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH2 CELL; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; ADULT; BIOSYNTHESIS; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; GRAFT VS HOST REACTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INDOLEAMINE-PYRROLE 2,3,-DIOXYGENASE; INTERFERON TYPE II; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; SKIN; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34548604258     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.3.1595     Document Type: Article

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