Regulatory T cells control tolerogenic versus autoimmune response to sperm in vasectomy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7511-7516

  Wheeler, Karen ^a   Tardif, Steve ^b   Rival, Claudia ^a   Luu, Brian ^a   Bui, Elise ^a   Del Rio, Roxana ^c   Teuscher, Cory ^c   Sparwasser, Tim ^d   Hardy, Daniel ^b   Tung, Kenneth S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF INFECTION IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Granulomatous inflammation; Innate response; Testis autoantigen; Vasoligation

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 17; SPERM ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZONADHESIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ORCHITIS; GRANULOMATOSIS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SPERM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; SPERMATOZOA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; VASECTOMY;

MUS;

EID: 79956327018     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017615108     Document Type: Article

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