A transgenic marker for mouse B lymphoid precursors

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 653-661

  Mårtensson, Inga Lill ^a,b   Melchers, Fritz ^b   Winkler, Thomas H ^b,c  

^a Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology   (Sweden)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLYMPHOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2;

EID: 0040457178     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.4.653     Document Type: Article

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