Circulating CD4+ CD25highFoxP3+ T cells vary in different clinical forms of leprosy

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1152-1158

  Attia, Enas A S ^a   Abdallah, Marwa ^a   Saad, Abeer A ^b   Afifi, Ashraf ^a   El Tabbakh, Alaa ^a   El Shennawy, Dina ^b   Ali, Hala B ^b  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE LEPROSY; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM LEPROSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LEPROSY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 77957139102     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2010.04535.x     Document Type: Article

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