CD4+ T cells from human neonates and infants are poised spontaneously to run a nonclassical IL-4 program

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5160-5170

  Hebel, Katrin ^a   Weinert, Soenke ^b   Kuropka, Benno ^c   Knolle, Julienne ^a   Kosak, Bernhard ^a   Jorch, Gerhard ^a   Arens, Christoph ^a   Krause, Eberhard ^c   Braun Dullaeus, Ruediger C ^b   Brunner Weinzierl, Monika C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADENOID; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFANT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

FEMALE; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TH2 CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84901280025     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1302539     Document Type: Article

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