Role of IL-12 in intrathymic negative selection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4349-4359

  Lúdvíksson, Björn R ^a   Ehrhardt, Rolf O ^a   Strober, Warren ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; IMMUNE SERA; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTERLEUKIN-12; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVALBUMIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-12; STAT4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0344631673     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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