Failure of rearranged TCR transgenes to prevent age-associated thymic involution

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4262-4268

  Lacorazza, H Daniel ^a   Guevara Patiño, Jose A ^a   Weksler, Marc E ^b,c   Radu, Dorel ^d   Nikolić Žugić, Janko ^a,c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; INVOLUTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0344378207     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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