Contribution of IL-12/IL-35 common subunit p35 to maintaining the testicular immune privilege

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Terayama, Hayato ^a,b   Yoshimoto, Takayuki ^a   Hirai, Shuichi ^a   Naito, Munekazu ^a   Qu, Ning ^a   Hatayama, Naoyuki ^a   Hayashi, Shogo ^a   Mitobe, Kana ^a   Furusawa, Jun Ichi ^a   Mizoguchi, Izuru ^a   Kezuka, Takeshi ^a   Goto, Hiroshi ^a   Suyama, Kaori ^b   Moriyama, Hiroshi ^c   Sakabe, Kou ^b   Itoh, Masahiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CD163 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR BETA2; INTERLEUKIN 35; PROTEIN P28; PROTEIN P35; PROTEIN P40; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; EBI3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTERLEUKIN 12P35; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; INTERLEUKIN-35, MOUSE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNE PRIVILEGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTERSTITIUM; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; P12 GENE; P35 GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; INTERLEUKIN-12 SUBUNIT P35; INTERLEUKINS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTIS;

EID: 84899762415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096120     Document Type: Article

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