The good, the bad and the ugly-T FH cells in human health and disease

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 412-426

  Tangye, Stuart G ^a,b   Ma, Cindy S ^a,b   Brink, Robert ^a,b   Deenick, Elissa K ^a,b  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; CD28 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 21 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 2; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; STAT3 PROTEIN;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL FATE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; JUVENILE DERMATOMYOSITIS; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOMA; MEMORY CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T FOLLICULAR HELPER CELL;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; LYMPHOMA; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PLASMA CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84878257992     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3447     Document Type: Review

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