Human iris pigment epithelium suppresses activation of bystander T cells via TGFβ-TGFβ receptor interaction

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1033-1042

  Horie, Shintaro ^a   Sugita, Sunao ^a   Futagami, Yuri ^a   Kawaguchi, Tastushi ^a   Kamoi, Koju ^a   Shirato, Shiroaki ^a   Mochizuki, Manabu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

human iris pigment epithelium; immune privilege; suppression; T cells; TGF

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; IRIS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IRIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SMAD PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 67349146510     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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