Limited role of CD4+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells in the control of experimental cerebral malaria

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 7014-7022

  Steeg, Christiane ^a   Adler, Guido ^a   Sparwasser, Tim ^b   Fleischer, Bernhard ^a   Jacobs, Thomas ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFECTION IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MALARIA; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SPLEEN; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 73349085916     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0901422     Document Type: Article

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