Specialized ability of thymic epithelial cells to mediate positive selection does not require expression of the steroidogenic enzyme P450scc

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 5781-5785

  Jenkinson, Eric J ^a   Parnell, Sonia ^a   Shuttleworth, John ^a   Owen, John J T ^a   Anderson, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; EMBRYO; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMAL CELLS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0033485432     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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