An immunomodulatory role for follistatin-like 1 in heart allograft transplantation

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2297-2306

  Le Luduec, J B ^a,b,c   Condamine, T ^a,b,c   Louvet, C ^a,b,c,d   Thebault, P ^a,b,c   Heslan, J M ^a,b,c   Heslan, M ^a,b,c   Chiffoleau, E ^a,b,c   Cuturi, M C ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FSTL1; T cells; Tolerance; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CYTOKINE; FOLLISTATIN RELATED PROTEIN; FOLLISTATIN RELATED PROTEIN 1; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 17 A; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; ISOGRAFT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DENDRITIC CELLS; FOLLISTATIN-RELATED PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-17; INTERLEUKIN-6; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 53749098815     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02398.x     Document Type: Article

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