Experimental myasthenia gravis in Aire-deficient mice: A link between Aire and regulatory T cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1275, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-113

  Aricha, Revital ^a   Feferman, Tali ^a   Berrih Aknin, Sonia ^b   Fuchs, Sara ^a   Souroujon, Miriam C ^a,c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aire; Experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG); Regulatory T cells; Spleen; Thymus

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SPLEEN;

EID: 84871556815     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06843.x     Document Type: Article

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