Entry into the thymic microenvironment triggers Notch activation in the earliest migrant T cell progenitors

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1299-1303

  Harman, Benjamin C ^a   Jenkinson, Eric J ^a   Anderson, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0037310525     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.3.1299     Document Type: Article

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