Homeostasis and effector function of lymphopenia-induced "memory-like" T cells in constitutively T cell-depleted mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 180, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4742-4753

  Voehringer, David ^a,b   Liang, Hong Erh ^a   Locksley, Richard M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; CRE RECOMBINASE; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; L SELECTIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMEOSTASIS; LOXP SITE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; WORM EXPULSION; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEMATODIASIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; PATHOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOPENIA; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44449088523     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.7.4742     Document Type: Article

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