S1Pライアースの阻害とS1Pグラデーションの破壊を通じてリンパ球の連結

Susan R Schwab1, João P Pereira, Mehrdad Matloubian

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0414, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 10, 2005
PubMed
まとめ

リンパ球器官からのリンパ球の脱出は,スフィンゴシン1酸塩 (S1P) の梯度に依存する. 食品添加物THIは,S1Pライアスを阻害することによって組織内のS1Pを増加させ,新しい薬物標的を明らかにします.

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