T cell development in TCRβ enhancer-deleted mice: Implications for αβ T cell lineage commitment and differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1364-1373

  Leduc, Isabelle ^a   Hempel, William M ^a,b   Mathieu, Noëlle ^a   Verthuy, Christophe ^a   Bouvier, Gaëlle ^a   Watrin, Françoise ^a,c   Ferrier, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^b Institut de Recherche Jouveinal   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TARGET CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0034254202     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.3.1364     Document Type: Article

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