Long-term in vivo reconstitution of T-cell development by Pax5-deficient B-cell progenitors

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6753, 1999, Pages 603-606

  Rolink, Antonius G ^a   Nutt, Stephen L ^b,c   Melchers, Fritz ^a   Busslinger, Meinrad ^b  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c WELLCOME CRC INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL LINE; CLONE CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; LEUKOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033533822     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44164     Document Type: Article

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