KLF13 sustains thymic memory-like CD8+ T cells in BALB/c mice by regulating IL-4-generating invariant natural killer T cells

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 208, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1093-1103

  Lai, Dazhi ^a   Zhu, Jinfang ^a   Wang, Tianhong ^a   Hu Li, Jane ^a   Terabe, Masaki ^b   Berzofsky, Jay A ^b   Clayberger, Carol ^a   Krensky, Alan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 13; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-4; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 79956133739     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20101527     Document Type: Article

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