TCR-γ Genes Are Rearranged but Not Transcribed in IL-7Rα-Deficient Mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 5744-5750

  Perumal, Narayanan B ^a   Kenniston Jr , Thomas W ^a   Tweardy, David J ^b   Dyer, Kevin F ^b   Hoffman, Rosemary ^b   Peschon, Jacques ^c   Appasamy, Pierette M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MILK PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN-7; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MILK PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031570441     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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