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SUBMITTER: Guo Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4648262 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guo Yanxia Y Lee Yu-Chi YC Brown Chrysothemis C Zhang Weijun W Usherwood Edward E Noelle Randolph J RJ
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20140307 7
Vitamin A deficiency leads to increased susceptibility to a spectrum of infectious diseases. The studies presented dissect the intrinsic role of each of the retinoic acid receptor (RAR) isoforms in the clonal expansion, differentiation, and survival of pathogen-specific CD8 T cells in vivo. The data show that RARα is required for the expression of gut-homing receptors on CD8(+) T cells and survival of CD8(+) T cells in vitro. Furthermore, RARα is essential for survival of CD8(+) T cells in vivo ...[more]