Detection of autoreactive CD4 T cells using major histocompatibility complex class II dextramers

BMC Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Massilamany, Chandirasegaran ^b   Upadhyaya, Bijaya ^b   Gangaplara, Arunakumar ^b   Kuszynski, Charles ^a,b   Reddy, Jay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen specific CD4 cells; Cardiac myosin heavy chain alpha; Central nervous system; Dextramers; Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; Experimental autoimmune myocarditis; Heart; Major histocompatibility complex class II; Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein; Proteolipid protein; Tetramers

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAMER; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN ALPHA; POLYMER; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIGEN; EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PEPTIDE;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE MYOCARDITIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; STAINING; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PEPTIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 79960557465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-12-40     Document Type: Article

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