Autoimmune regulator expression in thymomas with or without autoimmune disease

Immunology Letters

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-56

  Liu, Yimei ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Meng, Fanjie ^a   Chen, Yuan ^a   Wang, Yuanguo ^a   Yao, Yuanyuan ^a   Qi, Bin ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Autoimmune abnormality; Autoimmune regulator; Helix forkhead transcription factor; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CD4+ CD25+ FOXP3+ REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; THYMOMA; COMPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANTIGENS, SURFACE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMOMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84900829275     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: 18790542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2014.04.008     Document Type: Article

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