Systemic, but not intestinal, IL-7 is essential for the persistence of chronic colitis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 383-390

  Tomita, Takayuki ^a   Kanai, Takanori ^a   Nemoto, Yasuhiro ^a   Totsuka, Teruji ^a   Okamoto, Ryuichi ^a   Tsuchiya, Kiichiro ^a   Sakamoto, Naoya ^a   Watanabe, Mamoru ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RB ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 7; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RAG 1 PROTEIN; RAG-1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COUNT; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GOBLET CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARABIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-7; INTESTINES; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PARABIOSIS;

EID: 40449131153     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.1.383     Document Type: Article

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