A Fundamental Role for Interleukin-21 in the Generation of T Follicular Helper Cells

Immunity

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-137

  Vogelzang, Alexis ^a   McGuire, Helen M ^a   Yu, Di ^a   Sprent, Jonathan ^a   Mackay, Charles R ^a   King, Cecile ^a  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

CELLIMMUNO; MOLIMMUNO

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 21;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL STIMULATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GERMINAL CENTER; HELPER CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T FOLLICULAR HELPER CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COOPERATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-VAV; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 46749115446     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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