Dissecting the effects of endogenous brain IL-2 and normal versus autoreactive T lymphocytes on microglial responsiveness and T cell trafficking in response to axonal injury

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 526, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Zhi ^a   Meola, Danielle ^a   Petitto, John M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Brain; Congenic mice; IL 2; Immune reconstitution; Knockout; Microglia; Motoneuron; Nerve injury; Neuroimmunology; T cells

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICROGLIA; MOTONEURON; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; AXONS; AXOTOMY; BRAIN; CELL MOVEMENT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTERLEUKIN-2; MICE; MICE, CONGENIC; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROGLIA; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84865974735     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.08.018     Document Type: Article

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