Humoral autoimmunity: A failure of regulatory T cells?

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 735-741

  Dhaeze, Tessa ^a   Stinissen, Piet ^a   Liston, Adrian ^b,c   Hellings, Niels ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

B cells; Circulating follicular regulatory T cells; Follicular T cells; Germinal center response; Humoral autoimmune disease; Regulatory T cells

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOLOGY; GERMINAL CENTER; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SECONDARY IMMUNE RESPONSE; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84930753912     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: 18730183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2015.04.006     Document Type: Review

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