Susceptibility of neonatal T cells and adult thymocytes to peripheral tolerance to allogeneic stimuli

Immunology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 387-396

  Do Canto, Fábio B ^a   Lima Jr , Celso ^a   Teixeira, Ivan A ^a   Bellio, Maria ^b   Nóbrega, Alberto ^b   Fucs, Rita ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alloreactivity; Neonatal tolerance; Peripheral tolerance; Recent thymus emigrants; Regulatory T cells

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ALLOGRAFT; ALLOIMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LYMPHOPENIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, NUDE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 53549131541     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: 13652567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2008.02855.x     Document Type: Article

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