Onset of TCR-β gene rearrangement and role of TCR-β expression during CD3-CD4-CD8- thymocyte differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 4783-4792

  Godfrey, Dale I ^a   Kennedy, Jacqueline ^a   Mombaerts, Peter ^b   Tonegawa, Susumu ^b   Zlotnik, Albert ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD44; ANTIGENS, CD8; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; RECEPTORS, LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0028178440     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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