Aneurysmal lesions of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm contain clonally expanded t cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4897-4912

  Lu, Song ^a   White, John V ^b   Lin, Wan Lu ^a   Zhang, Xiaoying ^a   Solomides, Charalambos ^a   Evans, Kyle ^a   Ntaoula, Nectaria ^a   Nwaneshiudu, Ifeyinwa ^a   Gaughan, John ^a   Monos, Dimitri S ^c,d   Oleszak, Emilia L ^a,e   Platsoucas, Chris D ^a,e  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; T LYMPHOCYTE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONAL SELECTION, ANTIGEN-MEDIATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84901274526     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301009     Document Type: Article

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