The Impact of Thymic Antigen Diversity on the Size of the Selected T Cell Repertoire

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2247-2255

  Faro, Jose ^a,d   Velasco, Santiago ^a   González Fernández, África ^b   Bandeira, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SIZE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0842321786     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.4.2247     Document Type: Article

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