Invariant natural killer T cells

Antibodies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-36

  Cianferoni, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergy; Autoimmunity; Cancer; CD1D; Cytokines; Immunology; Infectious diseases; iNKT cells; Invariant Natural killer cells; Lipids; Sphingolipids

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; CD150 ANTIGEN; CD1D ANTIGEN; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOLIPID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANZYME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; LIPID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PERFORIN; STAT6 PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 3;

ALLERGY; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; DENDRITIC CELL; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INVARIANT NATURAL KILLER T CELL; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 84984704423     PISSN: 20734468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/antib3010016     Document Type: Review

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