The number of circulating CD4+CD25highFoxp3+ T lymphocytes is transiently elevated in the early childhood of transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy patients

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-310

  Rutkowska, Magdalena ^a   Lenart, Marzena ^a   Bukowska Strakovà, Karolina ^a   Szaflarska, Anna ^a   Pituch Noworolska, Anna ^a   Kobylarz, Krzysztof ^a   Błaut Szlósarczyk, Anita ^a   Zwonarz, Katarzyna ^a   Zembala, Marek ^a   Siedlar, Maciej ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Regulatory T cells; THI

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IL2RA PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREGULATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLENOMEGALY; TRANSIENT HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA OF INFANCY; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 80051787582     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2011.04.003     Document Type: Letter

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