Positive and negative selection of T cells

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue , 2003, Pages 139-176

  Starr, Timothy K ^a   Jameson, Stephen C ^a   Hogquist, Kristin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; Differential signaling; T cell development; Thymocyte; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; LIGAND; PEPTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONAL DELETION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0042470456     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.21.120601.141107     Document Type: Review

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