Advanced flowcytometric analysis of regulatory T cells: CD127 downregulation early post stem cell transplantation and altered Treg/CD3 +CD4 +-ratio in severe GvHD or relapse

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 373, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 36-44

  Bremm, Melanie ^a   Huenecke, Sabine ^a   Lehrnbecher, Thomas ^a   Ponstingl, Eva ^a   Mueller, Regine ^a   Heinze, Annekathrin ^a   Bug, Gesine ^a   Quaiser, Andrea ^a   Kapinsky, Michael ^b   Brehm, Claudia ^a   Bader, Peter ^a   Schneider, Gisbert ^c   Klingebiel, Thomas ^a   Koehl, Ulrike ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BECKMAN COULTER INC   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute graft versus host disease; Allogeneic stem cell transplantation; CD127 (IL 7R ); Children; Regulatory T cell

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUDARABINE; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; L SELECTIN; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; THIOTEPA;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR LYMPHOCYTE INFUSION; DOWN REGULATION; EFFECTOR CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RELAPSE; SCHOOL CHILD; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD3; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKIN-7 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054840377     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: 18727905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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