Transcriptional regulation of follicular T-helper (Tfh) cells

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 139-145

  Liu, Xindong ^a   Nurieva, Roza I ^a   Dong, Chen ^a  

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

Author keywords

Dendritic cells; T cell lineages and subsets; Tfh cells

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERMINAL CENTER; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MAF; RECEPTORS, CXCR5; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84873640954     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12040     Document Type: Article

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