Ordered and coordinated rearrangement of the TCR α locus: Role of secondary rearrangement in thymic selection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 2597-2601

  Huang, C Y ^a   Kanagawa, O ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0035865068     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.4.2597     Document Type: Article

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