TH2 cell development and function

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 121-133

  Walker, Jennifer A ^a   McKenzie, Andrew N J ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; MICRORNA; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN D2 RECEPTOR 2; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BASOPHIL; CELL FATE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL PLASTICITY; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG TARGETING; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; LYMPHOID CELL; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TH2 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASOPHILS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; DENDRITIC CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRORNAS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 85041327292     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2017.118     Document Type: Review

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