TCR diversity and Treg cells, sometimes more is more

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3097-3100

  Wing, James B ^a   Sakaguchi, Shimon ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Regulatory T cells; TCR

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL EXPANSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONE; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RISK FACTOR; THYMOCYTE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 80054904029     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201142115     Document Type: Note

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