Functional and Epigenetic Studies Reveal Multistep Differentiation and Plasticity of In Vitro-Generated and In Vivo-Derived Follicular T Helper Cells

Immunity

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 622-632

  Lu, Kristina T ^a   Kanno, Yuka ^b   Cannons, Jennifer L ^a   Handon, Robin ^a   Bible, Paul ^b   Elkahloun, Abdel G ^a   Anderson, Stacie M ^a   Wei, Lai ^b   Sun, Hongwei ^b   O'Shea, John J ^b   Schwartzberg, Pamela L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR5; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 4; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PROTEIN BCL 6; SIGNALING LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION MOLECULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIGENETICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICULAR T HELPER CELL; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GERMINAL CENTER; INTERLEUKINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 80755136623     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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