Different Developmental Arrest Points in RAG-2 -/- and SCID Thymocytes on Two Genetic Backgrounds: Developmental Choices and Cell Death Mechanisms before TCR Gene Rearrangement

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4052-4064

  Diamond, Rochelle A ^a   Ward, Susan B ^a   Owada Makabe, Kyoko ^a,b   Wang, Hua ^a   Rothenberg, Ellen V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD24 ANTIGEN; CD24A PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FAS ANTIGEN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERFORIN; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; V(D)J RECOMBINATION ACTIVATING PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOWN REGULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD24; ANTIGENS, CD44; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INTERLEUKIN-12; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031137014     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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