The importance of regulatory T-cell heterogeneity in maintaining self-tolerance

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 103-114

  Yuan, Xiaomei ^a   Cheng, Guoyan ^a,b   Malek, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Effector; Klrg1; Memory; Subsets; Tolerance; Tregs

Indexed keywords

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EFFECTOR CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM LINE; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MICROFLORA; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SUPPRESSOR CELL; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; THYMOCYTE;

EFFECTOR; KLRG1; MEMORY; SUBSETS; TOLERANCE; TREGS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SELF TOLERANCE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84897945297     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12163     Document Type: Article

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