Antigen Exposure shapes the ratio between antigen-specific Tregs and conventional T cells in human peripheral blood

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 41, 2016, Pages E6192-E6198

  Su, Laura F ^a,b   Del Alcazar, Daniel ^a   Stelekati, Erietta ^c   Wherry, E John ^c   Davis, Mark M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen specificity; Human; Influenza; Regulatory T cells; Repertoire

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE; TETRAMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOKINE; EPITOPE; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; ANIMAL; FETUS BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BIOMARKERS; CYTOKINES; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FETAL BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HLA-DR4 ANTIGEN; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MICE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84991491349     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611723113     Document Type: Article

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