Pervasive and stochastic changes in the TCR repertoire of regulatory T-cell-deficient mice

International Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 517-523

  Zheng, Lingjie ^a   Sharma, Rahul ^b   Kung, John T ^c   Deshmukh, Umesh S ^b   Jarjour, Wael N ^b   Fu, Shu Man ^a,b   Ju, Shyr Te ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Dual TCR; Repertoire; Scurfy; T cells

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 41149095155     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: 14602377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxn017     Document Type: Article

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