Autoreactive thymic B cells are efficient antigen-presenting cells of cognate self-antigens for T cell negative selection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 42, 2013, Pages 17011-17016

  Perera, Jason ^a   Meng, Liping ^a   Meng, Fanyong ^b   Huang, Haochu ^a  

^a Section of Rheumatology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARABIOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; AUTOANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84885801968     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313001110     Document Type: Article

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