The group 3 innate lymphoid cell defect in aryl hydrocarbon receptor deficient mice is associated with T cell hyperactivation during intestinal infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Wagage, Sagie ^a   Pritchard, Gretchen Harms ^a   Dawson, Lucas ^a   Buza, Elizabeth L ^a   Sonnenberg, Gregory F ^b,c   Hunter, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 22; PARASITE ANTIGEN; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; AHR PROTEIN, MOUSE; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; INTERLEUKIN-22; RORC PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; GROUP 3 INNATE LYMPHOID CELL; INTESTINE INFECTION; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHOID CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; DEFICIENCY; ENTEROPATHY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; MUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERLEUKINS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MICE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 1, GROUP F, MEMBER 3; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84956601825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128335     Document Type: Article

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48. Funding: This work was supported ny the NIHR01AI-110201 (http://www.niaid.nih.gov). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.