Regulatory T cell subsets in filarial infection and their function

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Metenou, Simon ^a   Nutman, Thomas B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

B. malayi; Filarial infection; O. volvulus; PTregs; Th3; Tr1; tTregs; W. bancrofti

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOCORTICOID INDUCED TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CELL FUNCTION; DOWN REGULATION; FILARIASIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW;

EID: 84885977187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00305     Document Type: Review

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