A novel role for HEB downstream or parallel to the pre-TCR signaling pathway during αβ thymopoiesis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3331-3343

  Barndt, Robert ^a   Dai, Mei Fang ^a   Zhuang, Yuan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HELA E BOX BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD44; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTOR-CD3 COMPLEX, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0033568023     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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