Age-Associated Thymic Atrophy in the Mouse Is Due to a Deficiency Affecting Rearrangement of the TCR during Intrathymic T Cell Development

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 3037-3045

  Aspinall, Richard ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; RAG 1 PROTEIN; RAG-1 PROTEIN;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSS BREEDING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; ATROPHY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

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