Critical Roles for Transcription Factor GATA-3 in Thymocyte Development

Immunity

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 863-875

  Pai, Sung Yun ^a,b   Truitt, Morgan L ^d   Ting, Chao Nan ^c   Leiden, Jeffrey M ^b,c   Glimcher, Laurie H ^b,c,d   Ho, I Cheng ^b,c,d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 0348110327     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(03)00328-5     Document Type: Article

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