Graft-versus-host-like disease complicating thymoma: Lack of AIRE expression as a cause of non-hereditary autoimmunity?

Immunology Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-37

  Offerhaus, G Johan ^a   Schipper, Marguerite E I ^a   Lazenby, Audrey J ^b   Montgomery, Elizabeth ^c   Morsink, Folkert H M ^a   Bende, Richard J ^d   Musler, Alex R ^d   van Lier, Rene A W ^d   van Noesel, Carel J M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AIRE; Autoimmunity; FOXP3; Graft versus host disease; Microsatellite; T cell development; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY CANDIDIASIS ECTODERMAL DYSTROPHY; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BILE DUCT; CASE REPORT; COLON DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; ENTEROCOLONOPATHY; ERYTHROCYTE APLASIA; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUTATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORGAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOGREN SIALADENITS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYMOMA;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNITY; COLITIS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 35449002410     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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