Commitment of common T/natural killer (NK) progenitors to unipotent T and NK progenitors in the murine fetal thymus revealed by a single progenitor assay

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 190, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1617-1625

  Ikawa, Tomokatsu ^a   Kawamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Fujimoto, Shinji ^a   Katsura, Yoshimoto ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clonal assay; Hematopoietic stem cell; Natural killer cell; T cell; Thymus

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; FETUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKINES; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERLEUKINS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0033454058     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.190.11.1617     Document Type: Article

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