The role of the preBCR, the interleukin-7 receptor, and homotypic interactions during B-cell development

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 175, Issue , 2000, Pages 47-58

  Stoddart, Angela ^a   Fleming, Heather E ^a   Paige, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7;

EID: 0033944214     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2000.017511.x     Document Type: Article

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