Notch signaling controls the generation and differentiation of early T lineage progenitors

Nature Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 663-670

  Sambandam, Arivazhagan ^a   Maillard, Ivan ^a,b   Zediak, Valerie P ^a   Xu, Lanwei ^a,b   Gerstein, Rachel M ^c   Aster, Jon C ^d   Pear, Warren S ^a,b   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLT3 LIGAND; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; CD135 ANTIGEN; FLT3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 3; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 22144487402     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1216     Document Type: Article

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