Insights into the role of Bcl6 in follicular Th cells using a new conditional mutant mouse model

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 191, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3705-3711

  Hollister, Kristin ^a   Kusam, Saritha ^a   Wu, Hao ^a   Clegg, Ninah ^a   Mondal, Arpita ^a   Sawant, Deepali V ^a   Dent, Alexander L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR5; CRE RECOMBINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 10; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE ORDER; GENE TARGETING; GERMINAL CENTER; INTERLEUKIN-10; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84885123308     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1300378     Document Type: Article

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