Human CD4+ memory T cells can become CD4+IL-9 + T cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Putheti, Prabhakar ^a   Awasthi, Amit ^a   Popoola, Joyce ^a   Gao, Wenda ^a   Strom, Terry B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CYTOKINE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTIGENS, CD4; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-9; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77952482484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008706     Document Type: Article

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