IL-21 promotes lupus-like disease in chronic graft-versus-host disease through both CD4 T cell- and b cell-intrinsic mechanisms

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1081-1093

  Nguyen, Vinh ^a   Luzina, Irina ^a,b   Rus, Horea ^a,b   Tegla, Cosmin ^a,b   Chen, Ching ^a   Rus, Violeta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; DOWN REGULATION; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUPUS LIKE RENAL DISEASE; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TH17 CELL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOWN-REGULATION; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; INTERLEUKIN-21 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKINS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; LYMPHOCYTE COOPERATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TH17 CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84863617821     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200318     Document Type: Article

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