Thymocyte deletion can bias Treg formation toward low-abundance self-peptide

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3301-3306

  Picca, Cristina Cozzo ^a   Oh, Soyoung ^a   Panarey, Laura ^a   Aitken, Malinda ^a   Basehoar, Alissa ^a   Caton, Andrew J ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Thymic selection; Tolerance; Transgenic models

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONAL DELETION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 73249117794     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200939709     Document Type: Article

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