Self-reactivity in thymic double-positive cells commits cells to a CD8αα lineage with characteristics of innate immune cells

Nature Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 597-605

  Yamagata, Tetsuya ^a,b   Mathis, Diane ^a,b   Benoist, Christophe ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE MARKER; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; LIGAND; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNITY; C57BL MOUSE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 2942640089     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1070     Document Type: Article

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