Essential requirement for c-kit and common γ chain in thymocyte development cannot be overruled by enforced expression of Bcl-2

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 193, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1431-1437

  Rodewald, Hans Reimer ^a   Waskow, Claudia ^a   Haller, Corinne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bcl 2; c kit; Common cytokine receptor chain; Growth factors; T cell development

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIGENS, CD44; CELL SURVIVAL; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR COMMON GAMMA SUBUNIT; MICE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0035908029     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.193.12.1431     Document Type: Article

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