A remarkable depletion of both naïve CD4+ and CD8+ with high proportion of memory T cells in an IPEX infant with a FOXP3 mutation in the forkhead domain

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-91

  Costa Carvalho, B T ^a,e   De Moraes Pinto, M I ^a   De Almeida, L C ^a   De Seixas Alves, M T ^b   Maia, R P ^b   De Souza, R L ^a   Barreto, M ^c   Lourenco L ^c   Vicente, A M ^c   Coutinho, A ^c   Carneiro Sampaio, M ^d  

^a Disciplina de Imunologia   (Brazil)

^b Departamento De Patologia   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^d Instituto da Crianca   (Brazil)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; ECZEMA; ENTEROPATHY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; INTESTINE VILLUS ATROPHY; IPEX SYNDROME; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PANCREATITIS; POLYENDOCRINOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SEPTICEMIA; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYMUS;

CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MUTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; X-LINKED COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES;

EID: 44449126967     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: 13653083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2008.02055.x     Document Type: Article

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