Recent developments in the transcriptional regulation of cytolytic effector cells

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 900-911

  Glimcher, Laurie H ^a,b   Townsend, Michael J ^a   Sullivan, Brandon M ^a   Lord, Graham M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOKINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; EOMESODERMIN; FAS LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANZYME A; GRANZYME B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 2; IONOMYCIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MYELOID E74 LIKE FACTOR 1; PERFORIN; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA BINDING; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFECTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 8544234990     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1490     Document Type: Review

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