Developmentally Ordered V-J Recombination in Mouse T Cell Receptor γ Locus Is Not Perturbed by Targeted Deletion of the Vγ4 Gene 1

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4223-4228

  Sunaga, Shinji ^a,b   Maki, Kazushige ^a   Komagata, Yoshinori ^a,c   Miyazaki, Jun Ichi ^a,c   Ikuta, Koichi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031137016     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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