Identification of a committed T cell precursor population in adult human peripheral blood

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 875-884

  Bruno, Ludovica ^a,c   Res, Pieter ^b   Dessing, Mark ^a   Cella, Marina ^a   Spits, Hergen ^b  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BLOOD CIRCULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030897093     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.5.875     Document Type: Article

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