Dll4-Notch signaling in Flt3-independent dendritic cell development and autoimmunity in mice

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 209, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1011-1028

  Billiard, Fabienne ^a   Lobry, Camille ^b   Darrasse Jèze, Guillaume ^c,f   Waite, Janelle ^a   Liu, Xia ^a   Mouquet, Hugo ^c   DaNave, Amanda ^a   Tait, Michelle ^a   Idoyaga, Juliana ^c   Leboeuf, Marylène ^d   Kyratsous, Christos A ^a   Burton, Jacquelynn ^a   Kalter, Julie ^a   Klinakis, Apostolos ^e   Zhang, Wen ^a   Thurston, Gavin ^a   Merad, Miriam ^d   Steinman, Ralph M ^c   Murphy, Andrew J ^a   Yancopoulos, George D ^a   Aifantis, Iannis ^b   Skokos, Dimitris ^a   more..

^a REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^f INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD135 ANTIGEN; CELL PROTEIN; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; DELTA LIKE LIGAND 4; DELTA LIKE LIGAND 4 ANTIBODY; FLT3 LIGAND; HERMES ANTIGEN; IMMUNOLOGIC AGENT; INTERFERON CONSENSUS SEQUENCE BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; NOTCH RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PU 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIBODY; DLL4 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FLT3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NICASTRIN PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; SECRETASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOACCUMULATION; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; HOMEOSTASIS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITIC CELLS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 3; GENES, MHC CLASS II; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84863794078     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20111615     Document Type: Article

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