Ig-specific T cell receptor-transgenic T cells are not deleted in the thymus and are functional in vivo

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 203-213

  Granucci, Francesca ^a   Rescigno, Maria ^a   Marconi, Giulia ^a   Foti, Maria ^a   Ricciardi Castagnoli, Paola ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONAL DELETION; CYTOKINES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, IGG; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SELF TOLERANCE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0030045373     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.1.203     Document Type: Article

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