Plasticity of Treg cells: Is reprogramming of Treg cells possible in the presence of FOXP3?

International Immunopharmacology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 555-560

  Beyer, Marc ^a   Schultze, Joachim L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

FOXP3; Plasticity; Regulatory T cells

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MICE; MUTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 79954631025     PISSN: 15675769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2010.11.024     Document Type: Article

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