Small cortical thymocytes are subject to positive selection

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 1475-1483

  Lundberg, Katarina ^a   Shortman, Ken ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSFER; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0028354215     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.179.5.1475     Document Type: Article

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