Temporal Lineage Tracing of Aire-Expressing Cells Reveals a Requirement for Aire in their Maturation Program

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2585-2592

  Nishikawa, Yumiko ^a   Nishijima, Hitoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Mitsuru ^a,d   Matsumoto, Minoru ^a   Morimoto, Junko ^a   Hirota, Fumiko ^a   Takahashi, Satoru ^b   Luche, Hervé ^c   Fehling, Hans Joerg ^c   Mouri, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; B7 ANTIGEN; CRE RECOMBINASE; TAMOXIFEN;

AIRE GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS PRESENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; TEMPORAL LINEAGE TRACING; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD80; APOPTOSIS; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; CROSS-PRIMING; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84897508383     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1302786     Document Type: Article

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