Forkhead box p3+ Regulatory T cell underlies male resistance to experimental type 2 autoimmune hepatitis

Hepatology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1789-1798

  Lapierre, Pascal ^a   Béland, Kathie ^a   Martin, Caroline ^a   Alvarez Jr , Fernando ^a   Alvarez, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASTRATION; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; SUPPLEMENTATION; VACCINATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; SEX FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 77951443602     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23536     Document Type: Article

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