IL-7 is essential for lymphopenia-driven turnover of colitogenic CD4+ memory T cells in chronic colitis

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2737-2747

  Tomita, Takayuki ^a   Kanai, Takanori ^a   Totsuka, Teruji ^b   Nemoto, Yasuhiro ^b   Okamoto, Ryuichi ^b   Tsuchiya, Kiichiro ^b   Sakamoto, Naoya ^b   Ohteki, Toshiaki ^a   Hibi, Toshifumi ^a   Watanabe, Mamoru ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Inflammation; Mucosa; Rodent; T cells

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ISOLATION; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARABIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS; COLON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-15; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PARABIOSIS; SPLEEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 70350526988     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200838905     Document Type: Article

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