Lymphoid progenitors and primary routes to becoming cells of the immune system

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 100-107

  Pelayo, Rosana ^a   Welner, Rob ^a   Perry, S Scott ^a   Huang, Jiaxue ^a   Baba, Yoshihiro ^a   Yokota, Takafumi ^a   Kincade, Paul W ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 1; RAG1 PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; DENDRITIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LYMPHOID CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 14844288910     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2005.01.012     Document Type: Review

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