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T-bet deficiency attenuates renal injury in experimental crescentic glomerulonephritis.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Mar 2008
Phoon Richard K S, Kitching A Richard, Odobasic Dragana, Jones Lynelle K, Semple Timothy J, Holdsworth Stephen R
Abstract excerpt
T-bet is a transcription factor that is essential for T helper (Th)1 lineage commitment and optimal IFN-gamma production by CD4(+) T cells. We examined the role of T-bet in the development of experimental crescentic glomerulonephritis, which is induced by Th1-predominant, delayed-type hypersensitivity-like responses directed against a nephritogenic antigen. Anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM)...
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