Impaired mast cell-driven immune responses in mice lacking the transcription factor NFATc2

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 6136-6142

  Becker, Marc ^a   Heib, Valeska ^b   Klein, Matthias ^a   Doener, Fatma ^a   Bopp, Tobias ^a   Taube, Christian ^a   Radsak, Markus ^a   Schild, Hansjörg ^a   Schmitt, Edgar ^a   Stassen, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMIQUIMOD; PEPTIDE; SIINFEKL PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFATC2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY CELL; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LANGERHANS CELL; LYMPH NODE; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WILD TYPE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LANGERHANS CELLS; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77952396785     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802878     Document Type: Article

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