Collagen induced arthritis (CIA) in mice features regulatory transcriptional network connecting major histocompatibility complex (MHC H2) with autoantigen genes in the thymus

Immunobiology

Volumn 216, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 591-603

  Donate, Paula B ^a   Fornari, Thaís A ^a   Junta, Cristina M ^a   Magalhães, Danielle A ^a   Macedo, Cláudia ^a   Cunha, Thiago M ^a   Nguyen, Catherine ^b   Cunha, Fernando Q ^a   Passos, Geraldo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Aire; Collagen induced arthritis; MHC; Promiscuous gene expression; Thymus; Transcriptional network

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; PROTEIN COL2A1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DBA 1 MOUSE; DBA 2 MOUSE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; AUTOANTIGENS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SELF TOLERANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79953284439     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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