Autophagy, immunity and human disease

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 512-520

  Heatha, Robert J ^a   Xaviera, Ramnik J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; Autophagy; Crohn's disease; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL FATE; CROHN DISEASE; DOWN REGULATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLIC BALANCE; MITOCHONDRION; NEOPLASM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; STRESS; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; AUTOPHAGY; CARRIER PROTEINS; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOPROTECTION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE;

EID: 74549198863     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e32833104f1     Document Type: Review

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