Genome-Wide Gene Expression Profiling Revealed a Critical Role for GATA3 in the Maintenance of the Th2 Cell Identity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Sasaki, Tetsuya ^a,b   Onodera, Atsushi ^a   Hosokawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Watanabe, Yukiko ^a   Horiuchi, Shu ^a   Yamashita, Junji ^a,b   Tanaka, Hitoshi ^b   Ogawa, Yasumasa ^b   Suzuki, Yutaka ^c   Nakayama, Toshinori ^a,d  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Research Division   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; GATA3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE GENE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR GENE; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOGENETICS; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 84879174770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066468     Document Type: Article

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