Bone morphogenetic protein 2/4 signaling regulates early thymocyte differentiation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 169, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 5496-5504

  Hager Theodorides, Ariadne L ^a   Outram, Susan V ^a   Shah, Divya K ^a   Sacedon, Rosa ^a   Shrimpton, Rachel E ^a   Vicente, Angeles ^a   Varas, Alberto ^a   Crompton, Tessa ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; CD2 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; NOGGIN; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMAD8 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMEOSTASIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 0037111391     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.10.5496     Document Type: Article

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