Glucocorticoid receptor deficient thymic and peripheral T cells develop normally in adult mice

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3546-3555

  Purton, Jared F ^a,c   Zhan, Yifan ^b   Liddicoat, Douglas R ^a,c   Hardy, Charles L ^a   Lew, Andrew M ^b   Cole, Timothy J ^c   Godfey, Dale I ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid receptor; Homeostasis; T cell development; T cell selection; Thymus

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; METYRAPONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL DEATH; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATOCYTES; METYRAPONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RADIATION CHIMERA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0036909641     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200212)32:12<3546::AID-IMMU3546>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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