Critical functions for c-Myb at three checkpoints during thymocyte development

Nature Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 721-729

  Bender, Timothy P ^a   Kremer, Christopher S ^a   Kraus, Manfred ^b   Buch, Thorsten ^c   Rajewsky, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN C MYB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; LETHALITY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 3242784226     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1085     Document Type: Article

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