Plasmacytoid dendritic cells, Janus-faced sentinels: Progesterone, guilty or innocent?

Immunotherapy

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 929-931

  Konttinen, Yrjö T ^a   Hänninen, Arno ^b   Fuellen, Georg ^c  

^a Biomedicum 1 ^*  (Finland)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIDS; Autoimmunity; Dendritic cell; HIV 1; IFN ; Plasmacytoid progesterone; ssRNA; Toll like receptor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CD38 ANTIGEN; JANUS KINASE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; PROGESTERONE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 77953377695     PISSN: 1750743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/imt.09.71     Document Type: Article

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