Responsiveness of developing T cells to IL-7 signals is sustained by miR-17∼92

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 195, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4832-4840

  Regelin, Malte ^a   Blume, Jonas ^a   Pommerencke, Jens ^a   Vakilzadeh, Ramin ^a   Witzlau, Katrin ^a   Łyszkiewicz, Marcin ^a,c   Ziętara, Natalia ^a,c   Saran, Namita ^a,d   Schambach, Axel ^a,b   Krueger, Andreas ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 17; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA 17; MICRORNA 92; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IL17R PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTERLEUKIN 17 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN-7, MOUSE; MICRORNA; MIRN17 MICRORNA, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; B LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL SURVIVAL; INTERLEUKIN-7; MICE; MICRORNAS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-17; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84958599461     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1402248     Document Type: Article

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