Two waves of recombinase gene expression in developing thymocytes

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1355-1360

  Wilson, Anne ^a   Held, Werner ^a   Mac Donald, H Robson ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM IONOPHORE; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; RECOMBINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMAL; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0028256203     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.179.4.1355     Document Type: Article

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