Apoptosis of CD4+CD25high T cells in type 1 diabetes may be partially mediated by IL-2 deprivation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Jailwala, Parthav ^a   Waukau, Jill ^a   Glisic, Sanja ^a   Jana, Srikanta ^a   Ehlenbach, Sarah ^a   Hessner, Martin ^a   Alemzadeh, Ramin ^a   Matsuyama, Shigemi ^b   Laud, Purushottam ^c   Wang, Xujing ^d   Ghosh, Soumitra ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; HLA ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN P53; CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOWN REGULATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE NUMBER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; BAYES THEOREM; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIGENS, CD4; APOPTOSIS; BAYES THEOREM; CELLS, CULTURED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 68349127013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006527     Document Type: Article

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