Involvement of transcription factors TCF-1 and GATA-3 in the initiation of the earliest step of T cell development in the thymus

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1137-1147

  Hattori, Noboru ^a   Kawamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Fujimoto, Shinji ^a   Kuno, Kenshi ^a   YoshiniotoKatsura, ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMUS;

EID: 0029788072     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.3.1137     Document Type: Article

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