Unveiling the roles of autophagy in innate and adaptive immunity

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 767-777

  Levine, Beth ^a   Deretic, Vojo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLADENINE; AMINO ACID; CD40 ANTIGEN; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GENOMIC RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTERFERON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGING; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTOPHAGY; BIOMASS; CELL DEATH; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CROHN DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEGRANULATION; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICROORGANISM; MITOCHONDRION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTOPHAGY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFLAMMATION; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 34548700796     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2161     Document Type: Review

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