Heterogeneity among DN1 prothymocytes reveals multiple progenitors with different capacities to generate T cell and non-T cell lineages

Immunity

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 735-745

  Porritt, Helen E ^a,d   Rumfelt, Lynn L ^b   Tabrizifard, Sahba ^a   Schmitt, Thomas M ^c   Zúñiga Pflücker, Juan Carlos ^b,c   Petrie, Howard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ProImmune Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINETICS; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 2942516896     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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