Autoimmunity, Not a Developmental Defect, is the Cause for Subfertility of Autoimmune Regulator (Aire) Deficient Mice

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 298-304

  Kekalainen E ^a   Pontynen N ^a,b   Meri, S ^a,c   Arstila, T P ^a   Jarva, H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE ADENOMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBFERTILITY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFERTILITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; POLYENDOCRINOPATHY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; INFERTILITY; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84928015099     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: 13653083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sji.12280     Document Type: Article

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