The interferon regulatory transcription factor IRF-1 controls positive and negative selection of CD8+ thymocytes

Immunity

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 243-254

  Penninger, Josef M ^a   Sirard, Christian ^a   Mittrücker, Hans Willi ^a   Chidgey, Anne ^c   Kozieradzki, Ivona ^a   Nghiem, Mai ^a   Hakem, Anne ^a   Kimura, Tohru ^b   Timms, Emma ^a   Boyd, Richard ^c   Taniguchi, Tadatsugu ^b   Matsuyama, Toshifumi ^a   Mak, Tak W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0030820417     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80527-0     Document Type: Article

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