Bispecificity for myelin and neuronal self-antigens is a common feature of CD4 T cells in C57BL/6 Mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 193, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3267-3277

  Lucca, Liliana E ^a,b,c   Desbois, Sabine ^a,b,c   Ramadan, Abdulraouf ^a,b,c   Ben Nun, Avraham ^d   Eisenstein, Miriam ^d   Carrié, Nadège ^a,b,c   Guéry, Jean Charles ^a,b,c   Sette, Alessandro ^e   Nguyen, Phuong ^f   Geiger, Terrence L ^f   Mars, Lennart T ^a,b,c   Liblau, Roland S ^a,b,c  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c University of Toulouse III   (France)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^f ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT M PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; AUTOANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN (35 55); MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN (35-55); NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CLONE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; HYBRIDOMA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MYELIN SHEATH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CROSS REACTIONS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELIN-OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN;

EID: 84907222920     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1400523     Document Type: Article

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