Clinical significance of increased CD4+CD25 -Foxp3+ T cells in patients with new-onset systemic lupus erythematosus

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1037-1040

  Zhang, B ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Tang, F L ^a   Zhu, L P ^b   Liu, Y ^b   Lipsky, P E ^c  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 46849087978     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2007.083543     Document Type: Article

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