Positive selection by the pre-TCR yields mature CD8+ T cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 169, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 4913-4919

  Ito, Yuriko ^a   Arai, Satoko ^a   Van Oers, Nicolai S C ^a   Aifantis, Iannis ^a   Von Boehmer, Harald ^a   Miyazaki, Toru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EGR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0036838928     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.9.4913     Document Type: Article

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