Requirement for RORγ in thymocyte survival and lymphoid organ development

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5475, 2000, Pages 2369-2373

  Sun, Zuoming ^a   Unutmaz, Derya ^a   Zou, Yong Rui ^a   Sunshine, Mary Jean ^a   Pierani, Alessandra ^b   Brenner Morton, Susan ^b   Mebius, Reina E ^c   Littman, Dan R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL X; BCL2L1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CDK2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CELL RECEPTOR; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 2; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; IDB2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 2; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR ROR GAMMA; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR ROR-GAMMA; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CDC2-CDC28 KINASES; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 2; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION PROTEIN 2; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034733039     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5475.2369     Document Type: Article

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