MEK activity regulates negative selection of immature CD4+CD8+ thymocytes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2326-2337

  Bommhardt, Ursula ^a   Scheuring, Yvonne ^a   Bickel, Chrisitan ^a   Zamoyska, Rose ^b   Hünig, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0034161736     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.5.2326     Document Type: Article

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