Cutting edge: Identification of the targets of clonal deletion in an unmanipulated thymus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 10-13

  Cho, Hyung J ^a   Edmondson, Samuel G ^a   Miller, Arden D ^a   Sellars, MacLean ^a   Alexander, Shawn T ^a   Somersan, Selin ^a   Punt, Jennifer A ^a  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NUR77; PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0037223065     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.1.10     Document Type: Article

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