In vitro differentiation and commitment of CD4+CD8+ thymocytes to the CD4 lineage without TCR engagement

International Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 297-306

  Ohoka, Yoshiharu ^a   Kuwata, Takeshi ^a   Tozawa, Yuzuru ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Mukai, Mutsumi ^a   Motegi, Yoshiko ^a   Suzuki, Rika ^a   Yokoyama, Minesuke ^a   Iwata, Makoto ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Glucocorticoid; Lineage commitment; Positive selection; Protein kinase C

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; IONOMYCIN; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN KINASE C; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; APOPTOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; IONOMYCIN; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-1; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTOR-CD3 COMPLEX, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0030060273     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/8.3.297     Document Type: Article

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