How many thymocytes audition for selection?

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1149-1158

  Merkenschlager, Matthias ^a   Graf, Daniel ^a   Lovatt, Matthew ^a   Bommhardt, Ursula ^b   Zamoyska, Rose ^b   Fisher, Amanda G ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD5 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONAL DELETION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SELECTION (GENETICS); T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0030846879     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.7.1149     Document Type: Article

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