Development and evolution of RORγt + cells in a microbe's world

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 177-188

  Eberl, Gérard ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

IL 17; IL 22; Innate lymphoid cells; ROR t; Symbiotic microbiota; Th17 cells

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR5; CXCL13 CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR ANTIBODY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 6; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; STAT3 PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; BACTERIAL CELL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIONT; TH17 CELL; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CYTOKINES; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELLS; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 1, GROUP F, MEMBER 3; SYMBIOSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 83655203107     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2011.01071.x     Document Type: Review

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