Opposite CD4/CD8 lineage decisions of CD4+8+ mouse and rat thymocytes to equivalent triggering signals: Correlation with thymic expression of a truncated CD8α chain in mice but not rats

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 700-707

  Mitnacht, Rita ^a   Bischof, Astrid ^a   Torres Nagel, Nora ^a   Hünig, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD8; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CELLS, CULTURED; CONCANAVALIN A; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKIN-7; IONOMYCIN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031965145     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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