Developmentally regulated expression of T cell receptor β chain variable domains in immature thymocytes

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 577-5782

  Budd, Ralph C ^a   Miescher, Guido C ^b   Howe, Rawleigh C ^a   Lees, Rosemary K ^a   Bron, Claude ^c   Robson Macdonald, H ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AGE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURFACE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0023267519     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.166.2.577     Document Type: Article

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