Interferon-γ Excess Leads to Pathogenic Accumulation of Follicular Helper T Cells and Germinal Centers

Immunity

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 880-892

  Lee, Sau K ^a   Silva, Diego G ^a   Martin, Jaime L ^a   Pratama, Alvin ^a   Hu, Xin ^a   Chang, Pheh Ping ^a   Walters, Giles ^b,c   Vinuesa, Carola G ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^b CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; INDUCIBLE T CELL COSTIMULATOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BCL 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR HELPER T CELL; GERMINAL CENTER; HELPER CELL; MOUSE; NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; GERMINAL CENTER; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEPHRITIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-6; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84869213212     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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