A role of cellular prion protein in programming T-cell cytokine responses in disease

FASEB Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1672-1684

  Ingram, Rebecca J ^a   Isaacs, Jeremy D ^a,b   Kaur, Gurman ^a,d   Lowther, Daniel E ^a   Reynolds, Catherine J ^c   Boyton, Rosemary J ^c   Collinge, John ^b   Jackson, Graham S ^b   Altmann, Daniel M ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knockout mouse; T lymphocyte; Th17

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 9; MESSENGER RNA; PRION PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEPSIS; SPLEEN CELL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYTOKINES; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PRPC PROTEINS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 67649304776     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-116087     Document Type: Article

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