Human thymic MR1-restricted MAIT cells are innate pathogen-reactive effectors that adapt following thymic egress

Mucosal Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-44

  Gold, M C ^a,b   Eid, T ^a   Smyk Pearson, S ^a   Eberling, Y ^a   Swarbrick, G M ^a   Langley, S M ^c   Streeter, P R ^a   Lewinsohn, D A ^a   Lewinsohn, D M ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MR1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIVISION; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFANT; INNATE IMMUNITY; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; MUCOSA CELL; MUCOSAL ASSOCIATED INVARIANT T CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; THYMOCYTE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 84867608542     PISSN: 19330219     EISSN: 19353456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mi.2012.45     Document Type: Article

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