Nr4a receptors are essential for thymic regulatory T cell development and immune homeostasis

Nature Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 230-237

  Sekiya, Takashi ^a   Kashiwagi, Ikkou ^a   Yoshida, Rei ^a   Fukaya, Tomohiro ^a   Morita, Rimpei ^a   Kimura, Akihiro ^a   Ichinose, Hiroshi ^b   Metzger, Daniel ^c   Chambon, Pierre ^d   Yoshimura, Akihiko ^a,d  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR4A3; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NUR77; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HOMEOSTASIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 4, GROUP A, MEMBER 1; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 4, GROUP A, MEMBER 2; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMOCYTES;

EID: 85027932757     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2520     Document Type: Article

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