Complete TCR-δ rearrangements and partial (D-J) recombination of the TCR-β locus in CD34+7+ precursors from human cord blood: Evidence for T cell lineage commitment

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4120-4127

  Ktorza, Sandra ^b   Blanc, Catherine ^b   Laurent, Caroline ^b   Sarun, Sukhéna ^b   Verpilleux, Marie Pascale ^b   Debré, Patrice ^b   Schmitt, Christian ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Immunologie Cellulaire et Tissulaire CNRS URA 625   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN; DNA; RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD34; ANTIGENS, CD7; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; FETAL BLOOD; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, DELTA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029884673     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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