Rapid migration of thymic emigrants to the colonic mucosa in ulcerative colitis patients

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 325-336

  Elgbratt, K ^a   Kurlberg, G ^b   Hahn Zohric, M ^b   Hultgren Hornquist E ^a,c  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Real time PCR; T cell receptor excision circles; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RAG1 PROTEIN; T CELL RECEPTOR EXCISION CIRCLES; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LAMINA PROPRIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SMALL INTESTINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIGENS, CD45; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GENES, RAG-1; HUMANS; INTEGRIN BETA CHAINS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; L-SELECTIN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649309081     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2010.04230.x     Document Type: Article

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