Glucocorticoid-mediated repression of T-cell receptor signalling is impaired in glucocorticoid receptor exon 2-disrupted mice

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 148-155

  Liddicoat, Douglas R ^a,b   Purton, Jared F ^a,c   Cole, Timothy J ^b   Godfrey, Dale I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid receptor; Glucocorticoids; T cell receptor; T cell selection

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ANTIGEN MEDIATED CLONAL SELECTION; EXON; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CLONAL SELECTION, ANTIGEN-MEDIATED; EXONS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84893844320     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.2013.76     Document Type: Article

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