Foxp3 expression is required for the induction of therapeutic tissue tolerance

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3947-3956

  Regateiro, Frederico S ^a   Chen, Ye ^a   Kendal, Adrian R ^a   Hilbrands, Robert ^a   Adams, Elizabeth ^a   Cobbold, Stephen P ^a   Ma, Jianbo ^a   Andersen, Kristian G ^b   Betz, Alexander G ^c   Zhang, Mindy ^d   Madhiwalla, Shruti ^d   Roberts, Bruce ^d   Waldmann, Herman ^a   Nolan, Kathleen F ^a   Howie, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE NUMBER; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RETROVIRUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

EID: 84867320891     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200449     Document Type: Article

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