IL-15 regulates homeostasis and terminal maturation of NKT cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6335-6345

  Gordy, Laura E ^a   Bezbradica, Jelena S ^a,d   Flyak, Andrew I ^a   Spencer, Charles T ^a   Dunkle, Alexis ^b   Sun, Jingchun ^a,c   Stanic, Aleksandar K ^a,e   Boothby, Mark R ^a   He, You Wen ^b   Zhao, Zhongming ^a,c   Van Kaer, Luc ^a   Joyce, Sebastian ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANZYME A; GRANZYME C; INTERLEUKIN 15; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPLEEN CELL; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; HOMEOSTASIS; INTERLEUKIN-15; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; SPLEEN; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 83755178604     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1003965     Document Type: Article

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