The Yaa locus and IFN-α fine-tune germinal center B cell selection in murine systemic lupus erythematosus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4305-4312

  Moisini, Ioana ^a   Huang, Weiqing ^a   Bethunaickan, Ramalingam ^a   Sahu, Ranjit ^a   Ricketts, Peta Gay ^a   Akerman, Meredith ^a   Marion, Tony ^b   Lesser, Martin ^a   Davidson, Anne ^a  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AUTOANTIBODY; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GERMINAL CENTER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEINURIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERFERON-ALPHA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED MRL LPR; MICE, INBRED NZB; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 7;

EID: 84867903052     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200745     Document Type: Article

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