Aire regulates the transfer of antigen from mTECs to dendritic cells for induction of thymic tolerance

Blood

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2462-2472

  Hubert, François Xavier ^a,b   Kinkel, Sarah A ^a,b   Davey, Gayle M ^b   Phipson, Belinda ^a   Mueller, Scott N ^b   Liston, Adrian ^c   Proietto, Anna I ^a,b   Cannon, Ping Z F ^a   Forehan, Simon ^b   Smyth, Gordon K ^a   Wu, Li ^a   Goodnow, Christopher C ^d   Carbone, Francis R ^b   Scott, Hamish S ^e,f   Heath, William R ^b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Australian National University   (Australia)

^e SA PATHOLOGY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; INSULIN; OVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFYING SELECTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THYMUS;

EID: 80052423824     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-06-286393     Document Type: Article

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