Functional quartet by CD4+ T cells: A concerto of multiple cytokines

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-7

  Stepkowski, Stanislaw M ^a   Chen, Wenhao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR BETA2; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 5; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; STAT1 PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EDITORIAL; GENOME IMPRINTING; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T CELL DEPLETION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

EID: 46149088510     PISSN: 1744666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/1744666X.4.1.5     Document Type: Editorial

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