Transforming growth factor-β 'reprograms' the differentiation of T helper 2 cells and promotes an interleukin 9-producing subset

Nature Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1341-1346

  Veldhoen, Marc ^a   Uyttenhove, Catherine ^b   van Snick, Jacques ^b   Helmby, Helena ^c   Westendorf, Astrid ^d   Buer, Jan ^d   Martin, Bruno ^a   Wilhelm, Christoph ^a   Stockinger, Brigitta ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 9; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH2 CELL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOKINES; INTERLEUKIN-9; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TH2 CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 56349154943     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1659     Document Type: Article

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