Inhibitory effect on natural killer activity of microphthalmia transcription factor encoded by the mutant mi allele of mice

Blood

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 2075-2083

  Ito, Akihiko ^a   Kataoka, Tatsuki R ^a   Kim, Dae Ki ^a   Koma, Yu Ichiro ^a   Lee, Young Mi ^a   Kitamura, Yukihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 2; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NUCLEAR FACTOR; PERFORIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPLEEN CELL; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0035313444     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V97.7.2075     Document Type: Article

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