Interleukin 21 up-regulates perforin-mediated cytotoxic activity of human intra-epithelial lymphocytes

Immunology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 206-215

  Ebert, Ellen C ^a,b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Fas ligand; Interleukin 21; Intra epithelial lymphocytes; Perforin; Tumour necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD45RO ANTIGEN; CD94 ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 21; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PERFORIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DOWN REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; UPREGULATION;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; INTERLEUKIN-15; INTERLEUKINS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; JEJUNUM; PERFORIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 65449174258     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: 13652567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2008.02941.x     Document Type: Article

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