IL-21 regulates experimental colitis by modulating the balance between Treg and Th17 cells

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3155-3163

  Fantini, Massimo C ^a   Rizzo, Agelamaria ^a   Fina, Daniele ^a   Caruso, Roberta ^a   Becker, Christoph ^b   Neurath, Markus F ^b   MacDonald, Thomas T ^c   Pallone, Francesco ^a   Monteleone, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colitis; FoxP3; IL 21; Treg cells; TGF

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 21; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ISOLATION; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; COLITIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-17; INTERLEUKINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, SCID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 36248973130     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200737766     Document Type: Article

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