Fetal exposure to high-avidity TCR ligand enhances expansion of peripheral T regulatory cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-80

  Yu, Ping ^a,b   Haymaker, Cara L ^a   Divekar, Rohit D ^a   Ellis, Jason S ^a   Hardaway, John ^a   Jain, Renu ^a   Tartar, Danielle M ^a   Hoeman, Christine M ^a   Cascio, Jason A ^a   Ostermeier, Austin ^a   Zaghouani, Habib ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LIGAND; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN 1; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL EXPANSION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SWISS JAMES LAMBERT MOUSE; THYMUS; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FETUS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FETUS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LIGANDS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MICE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 47949088272     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.1.73     Document Type: Article

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