Positive and negative thymocyte selection

Critical Reviews in Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 359-370

  Saito, Takashi ^a   Watanabe, Norihiko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avidity; CD3 ; Coreceptor; Lineage commitment; Peptide; TCR

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CELL DEATH; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 0031904725     PISSN: 10408401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/critrevimmunol.v18.i4.40     Document Type: Review

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