Compensatory T-cell regulation in unaffected relatives of SLE patients, and opposite IL-2/CD25-mediated effects suggested by coreferentiality modeling

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Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Fesel, Constantin ^a   Barreto, Marta ^a,e   Ferreira, Ricardo C ^a,f   Costa, Nuno ^a   Venda, Lara L ^a,g   Pereira, Clara ^a,d   Carvalho, Claudia ^d   Morães Fontes, Maria Francisca ^a,h   Ferreira, Carlos M ^b,h   Vasconcelos, Carlos ^d,i   Viana, João F ^c   Santos, Eugenia ^b,h   Martins, Berta ^d   Demengeot, Jocelyne ^a   Vicente, Astrid M ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b Associação dos Doentes com Lupus   (Portugal)

^c Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

ⁱ HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COREFERENTIALITY MODELING; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RELATIVE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 84859085049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033992     Document Type: Article

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