Thymic lineage commitment rather than selection causes genetic variations in size of CD4 and CD8 compartments

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3649-3654

  Van Meerwijk, Joost P M ^a,b   Bianchi, Teresa ^a   Marguerat, Samuel ^a,c   MacDonald, H Robson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b CHU PURPAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PHENOTYPE; RADIATION CHIMERA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THYMUS GLAND; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032522637     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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