The c-kit+ maturation pathway in mouse thymic T cell development: Lineages and selection

Immunity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-161

  Akashi, Koichi ^a,b   Weissman, Irving L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; SUPERANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C KIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0030218969     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80491-4     Document Type: Article

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