Cellular identity and lineage choice

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 977-982

  Fisher, Amanda G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOID CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036884695     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri958     Document Type: Review

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