Severe Thymic Atrophy in a Mouse Model of Skin Inflammation Accounts for Impaired TNFR1 Signaling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Belhacéne, Nathalie ^a,c,d   Gamas, Parvati ^a,c,d   Gonçalvès, Diogo ^a,c,d   Jacquin, Marie ^a,c   Beneteau, Marie ^a,c   Jacquel, Arnaud ^a,c,d   Colosetti, Pascal ^a,c,d   Ricci, Jean Ehrland ^a,c   Wakkach, Abdellilah ^b,c   Auberger, Patrick ^a,c,d   Marchetti, Sandrine ^a,c,d  

^a CENTRE MÉDITERRANÉEN DE MÉDECINE MOLÉCULAIRE C3M   (France)

^b Nice Sophia Antipolis University   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^d Equipe labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer 2011 2013   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; DERMATITIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE I; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84867407285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047321     Document Type: Article

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