A novel splice variant of folate receptor 4 predominantly expressed in regulatory T cells

BMC Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tian, Yi ^a   Wu, Guoqiang ^b   Xing, Jun Chao ^b   Tang, Jun ^c   Zhang, Yi ^a   Huang, Ze Min ^a   Jia, Zheng Cai ^a   Zhao, Ren ^a   Tian, Zhi Qiang ^a   Wang, Shu Feng ^a   Chen, Xiao Ling ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Wu, Yu Zhang ^a   Ni, Bing ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NORTHERN THEATER COMMAND   (China)

^c The 105th Hospital of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Folate receptor 4; Proliferation; Regulatory T cells; Variant

Indexed keywords

FOLATE RECEPTOR; FOLATE RECEPTOR 4; FOLIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84862209448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-13-30     Document Type: Article

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