Transcription from the RAG1 locus marks the earliest lymphocyte progenitors in bone marrow

Immunity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-130

  Igarashi, Hideya ^a   Gregory, Sophia C ^a   Yokota, Takafumi ^a   Sakaguchi, Nobuo ^b   Kincade, Paul W ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD27 ANTIGEN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RAG1 PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0036669273     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(02)00366-7     Document Type: Article

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