CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells optimize diversity of the conventional T cell repertoire during reconstitution from lymphopenia

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4749-4760

  Winstead, Colleen J ^a   Reilly, Cavan S ^b   Moon, James J ^a   Jenkins, Marc K ^a   Hamilton, Sara E ^a   Jameson, Stephen C ^a   Way, Sing Sing ^a   Khoruts, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; CD4 ANTIGEN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; IMMUNOMODULATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LYMPHOPENIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 77954502214     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0904076     Document Type: Article

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