Agrin signalling contributes to cell activation and is overexpressed in T lymphocytes from lupus patients

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 7975-7983

  Jury, Elizabeth C ^a   Eldridge, Jillian ^a   Isenberg, David A ^a   Kabouridis, Panagiotis S ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AGRIN; ALPHA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; AGRIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 38849088076     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.11.7975     Document Type: Article

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