An in vivo IL-7 requirement for peripheral Foxp3 + regulatory T cell homeostasis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 188, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5859-5866

  Kim, Grace Y ^a,b,c   Ligons, Davinna L ^a   Hong, Changwan ^a   Luckey, Megan A ^a   Keller, Hilary R ^a   Tai, Xuguang ^a   Lucas, Philip J ^a   Gress, Ronald E ^a   Park, Jung Hyun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; HOMEOSTASIS; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HOMEOSTASIS; INTERLEUKIN-7; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84862604749     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1102328     Document Type: Article

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