Early divergence of Th1 and Th2 transcriptomes involves a small core response and sets of transiently expressed genes

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1074-1084

  Van Den Ham, Henk Jan ^a,b   De Waal, Leon ^a   Zaaraoui Boutahar, Fatiha ^a   Bijl, Maarten ^a   van Ijcken, Wilfred F J ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a   De Boer, Rob J ^b   Andeweg, Arno C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cellular activation; Gene regulation; Microarray; Th cells

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; PHENOTYPE; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84876424586     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201242979     Document Type: Article

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