Regulatory T cells: Friend or foe in immunity to infection?

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 841-855

  Mills, Kingston H G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; FUNGUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY; MICE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2;

EID: 8544242704     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1485     Document Type: Review

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