Essential role of IL-4 and IL-4Ra interaction in adaptive immunity of zebrafish: Insight into the origin of Th2-like regulatory mechanism in ancient vertebrates

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 188, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5571-5584

  Zhu, Lv Yun ^a,b,c   Pan, Ping Ping ^a,b,c   Fang, Wei ^a,b,c   Shao, Jian Zhong ^a,b,c   Xiang, Li Xin ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory for Cell and Gene Engineering of Zhejiang Province   (China)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RABBIT; TH2 CELL; UPREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD40; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CATTLE; CD40 LIGAND; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; HORSES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PAN TROGLODYTES; RABBITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-4; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TH2 CELLS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84862076454     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1102259     Document Type: Article

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