TCR Gene Recombination and αβ-γδ Lineage Divergence Productive TCR-β Rearrangement Is Neither Exclusive Nor Preclusive of γδ Cell Development

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 4293-4296

  Burtrum, Douglas B ^a   Kim, Sylvia ^c   Dudley, Erastus C ^c,d   Hayday, Adrian C ^c   Petrie, Howard T ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030588627     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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