Lymphocyte development in fish and amphibians

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 166, Issue , 1998, Pages 199-220

  Hansen, John D ^a   Zapata, Agustin G ^b  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

AMPHIBIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; FISH; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; LEYDIG CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REVIEW; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; FISHES; HEMATOPOIESIS; LYMPHOCYTES; MESODERM; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032429274     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01264.x     Document Type: Review

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