Age dependent course of EAE in Aire-/- mice

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 27-34

  Aharoni, Rina ^a   Aricha, Revital ^a   Eilam, Raya ^a   From, Ido ^a   Mizrahi, Keren ^a   Arnon, Ruth ^a   Souroujon, Miriam C ^a,b   Fuchs, Sara ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autoimmune regulator (Aire); Autoimmunity; Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE); Regulatory T cells (Treg); Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

AGE; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN GENE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN GENE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; WILD TYPE;

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR (AIRE); AUTOIMMUNITY; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (EAE); REGULATORY T CELLS (TREG); SUSCEPTIBILITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84884130253     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: 18728421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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