Role of Tim-3/galectin-9 inhibitory interaction in viral-induced immunopathology: Shifting the balance toward regulators

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3191-3201

  Sehrawat, Sharvan ^a   Suryawanshi, Amol ^a   Hirashima, Mitsuomi ^b   Rouse, Barry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECALECTIN; LECTIN; GALECTIN; GALECTIN 9, MOUSE; HAVCR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; VASCULOTROPIN A; VIRUS RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; KERATITIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CERCOPITHECUS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE TARGETING; HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VERO CELL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CORNEAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; GALECTINS; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; KERATITIS, HERPETIC; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VERO CELLS;

EID: 64849111809     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0803673     Document Type: Article

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