Role of autophagy in immunity and autoimmunity, with a special focus on systemic lupus erythematosus

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1400-1412

  Pierdominici, Marina ^a   Vomero, Marta ^a   Barbati, Cristiana ^a,b   Colasanti, Tania ^a,b   Maselli, Angela ^a   Vacirca, Davide ^a   Giovannetti, Antonello ^c   Malorni, Walter ^a,b   Ortona, Elena ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Istituto San Raffaele Sulmona   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Innate and adaptive immune responses; Rapamycin; T cell homeostasis

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 5; AZD 8055; BORTEZOMIB; COLECALCIFEROL; CYCLOSPORIN; EVEROLIMUS; FORIGERIMOD; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; RAPAMYCIN; RIDAFOROLIMUS; TEMSIROLIMUS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTOPHAGY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTOPHAGY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; LYMPHOCYTES; PHAGOCYTES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84860899836     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-194175     Document Type: Review

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