Impairment of T cell development in δEF1 mutant mice

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 185, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1467-1479

  Higashi, Yujiro ^a   Moribe, Hiroki ^a   Takagi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sekido, Ryohei ^a   Kawakami, Kiyoshi ^b   Kikutani, Hitoshi ^a   Kondoh, Hisato ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; MALE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD44; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTEGRIN ALPHA4; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; SPLEEN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030906128     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.8.1467     Document Type: Article

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