Two distinct steps during thymocyte maturation from CD4-CD8- to CD4+CD8+ distinguished in the early growth response (Egr)-1 transgenic mice with a recombinase-activating gene-deficient background

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 877-885

  Miyazaki, Toru ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD44; ANTIGENS, CD8; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030930399     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.6.877     Document Type: Article

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