Checkpoints in thymocytopoiesis in aging: Expression of the recombination activating genes RAG-1 and RAG-2

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 102, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 239-247

  Ben Yehuda, Arie ^a   Friedman, Gideon ^a   Wirtheim, Eitan ^a   Abel, Loya ^b   Globerson, Amiela ^b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; RAG 1; RAG 2; T cell receptor; Thymocytes

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; COCULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344043443     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(98)00021-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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