Sequential development of interleukin 2–dependent effector and regulatory T cells in response to endogenous systemic antigen

Transfer of naive antigen-specific CD4+ T cells into lymphopenic mice that express an endogenous antigen as a systemic, secreted protein results in severe autoimmunity resembling graft-versus-host disease. T cells that respond to this endogenous antigen develop into effector cells that cause the dis...

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Main Authors: Knoechel, Birgit, Lohr, Jens, Kahn, Estelle, Bluestone, Jeffrey A., Abbas, Abul K.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 2005
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2212975/