Aire Enforces Immune Tolerance by Directing Autoreactive T Cells into the Regulatory T Cell Lineage

Immunity

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1102-1113

  Malchow, Sven ^a   Leventhal, Daniel S ^a   Lee, Victoria ^a   Nishi, Saki ^a   Socci, Nicholas D ^b   Savage, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; AUTOANTIGEN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN MEDIATED CLONAL SELECTION; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CLONE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CLONAL DELETION; CLONAL SELECTION, ANTIGEN-MEDIATED; CLONE CELLS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROSTATE; T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84964594827     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.02.009     Document Type: Article

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