Thymopoiesis independent of common lymphoid progenitors

Nature Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 168-174

  Allman, David ^a,b   Sambandam, Arivazhagan ^a   Kim, Sungjune ^a,d   Miller, Juli P ^a,b   Pagan, Antonio ^c   Well, David ^a   Meraz, Anita ^a   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL KINETICS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROLYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TIME;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN-7; KINETICS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037320932     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni878     Document Type: Article

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