Cutting edge: Estrogen drives expiansion of the CD4+CD25 + regulatory T cell compartment

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2227-2230

  Polanczyk, Magdalena J ^a,c,d   Carson, Bryan D ^e,f   Subramanian, Sandhya ^c   Afentoulis, Michael ^c   Vandenbark, Arthur A ^a,b,c   Ziegler, Steven F ^e,f   Offner, Halina ^a,c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 4043071317     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.4.2227     Document Type: Article

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