Tryptophan catabolism generates autoimmune-preventive regulatory T cells

Transplant Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-60

  Fallarino, Francesca ^a   Grohmann, Ursula ^a   You, Sylvaine ^b   McGrath, Barbara C ^c   Cavener, Douglas R ^c   Vacca, Carmine ^a   Orabona, Ciriana ^a   Bianchi, Roberta ^a   Belladonna, Maria L ^a   Volpi, Claudia ^a   Fioretti, Maria C ^a   Puccetti, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic cells; Regulatory T cells; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE GCN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INDOLEAMINE-PYRROLE 2,3,-DIOXYGENASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 36248996016     PISSN: 09663274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trim.2006.09.017     Document Type: Article

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