Maintaining the norm: T-cell homeostasis

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 547-556

  Jameson, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 7; LIGAND; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HOMEOSTASIS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; ANIMAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0036672918     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri853     Document Type: Review

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