Bcl6 expression specifies the T follicular helper cell program in vivo

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 209, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1841-1852

  Liu, Xindong ^a   Yan, Xiaowei ^b   Zhong, Bo ^a   Nurieva, Roza I ^a   Wang, Aibo ^a   Wang, Xiaohu ^a   Martin Orozco, Natalia ^a   Wang, Yihong ^a   Chang, Seon Hee ^a   Esplugues, Enric ^c   Flavell, Richard A ^c   Tian, Qiang ^b   Dong, Chen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR5; PROTEIN BCL 6; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; GENE TARGETING; GENES, REPORTER; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, CXCR5; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84870285173     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20120219     Document Type: Article

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