Requirement for the thymus αβ in T lymphocyte lineage commitment

Immunity

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-197

  Carlyle, James R ^a   Zúñiga Pflücker, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS LIVER; GENE LOCUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPLEEN; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SPLEEN; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032135207     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80601-9     Document Type: Article

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