A combination of fluorescent NFAT and H2B sensors uncovers dynamics of T cell activation in real time during CNS autoimmunity

Nature Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 784-790

  Lodygin, Dmitri ^a   Odoardi, Francesca ^a   Schläger, Christian ^a   Körner, Henrike ^a   Kitz, Alexandra ^a   Nosov, Michail ^b   Van Den Brandt, Jens ^a,c   Reichardt, Holger M ^a   Haberl, Michael ^a   Flügel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c Medical University of Greifswald   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EFFECTOR CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR SENSOR; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; BRAIN; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FLUORESCENCE; HISTONES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84880284892     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3182     Document Type: Article

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