Asymmetric redundancy in CD4 silencer function

Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 301-311

  Duncan, David D ^a   Adlam, Matthew ^a   Siu, Gerald ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0029944714     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80438-0     Document Type: Article

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