Cutting edge: Highly alloreactive dual TCR T cells play a dominant role in graft-versus-host disease

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 182, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 6639-6643

  Morris, Gerald P ^a   Allen, Paul M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE STRAIN;

ANIMALS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 67449149805     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0900638     Document Type: Article

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