Differential gene expression in CD3ε and RAG1-deficient thymuses: Definition of a set of genes potentially involved in thymocyte maturation

Immunogenetics

Volumn 50, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 255-270

  Carrier, Alice ^a   Nguyen, Catherine ^a   Victorero, Geneviève ^a   Granjeaud, Samuel ^a   Rocha, Dominique ^a,b   Bernard, Karine ^a   Miazek, Arkadiusz ^a   Ferrier, Pierre ^a   Malissen, Marie ^a   Naquet, Philippe ^a   Malissen, Bernard ^a   Jordan, Bertrand R ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemokines; Gene regulation; T lymphocytes; Thymic stroma; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; PEPTIDASE; RNA; SERINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; DNA PROBE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032785117     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050601     Document Type: Article

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