T-cell and natural killer cell development in thymectomized Xenopus

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 166, Issue , 1998, Pages 245-258

  Horton, John ^a   Horton, Trudy ^a   Dzialo, Robin ^b   Gravenor, Ian ^a   Minter, Ralph ^a   Ritchie, Pamela ^a   Gartland, Lanier ^b   Watson, Martin ^a   Cooper, Max ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE SURFACE MARKER; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

AMPHIBIA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CYTOTOXICITY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTESTINE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLEEN; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032446697     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01267.x     Document Type: Review

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