T Follicular Helper Cell Differentiation, Function, and Roles in Disease

Immunity

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 529-542

  Crotty, Shane ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ANTIBODY; BCL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; IL12A PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 12P35;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOLOGY; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; FOLLICULAR HELPER CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JUVENILE DERMATOMYOSITIS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE; MEMORY CELL; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VACCINATION; VIREMIA; ANIMAL; GERMINAL CENTER; HEMATOPOIESIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GERMINAL CENTER; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-12 SUBUNIT P35; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84908148200     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2014.10.004     Document Type: Review

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