Which model better fits the role of Aire in the establishment of self-tolerance: The transcription model or the maturation model?

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Matsumoto, Mitsuru ^a   Nishikawa, Yumiko ^a   Nishijima, Hitoshi ^a   Morimoto, Junko ^a   Matsumoto, Minoru ^a   Mouri, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; B7 ANTIGEN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN 5; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; INVOLUCRIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; TISSUE RESTRICTED SELF ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 84883679216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00210     Document Type: Article

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