Life before the pre-B cell receptor checkpoint: Specification and commitment of primitive lymphoid progenitors in adult bone marrow

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2-11

  Pelayo, Rosana ^a   Welner, Robert S ^a,b   Nagai, Yoshinori ^a   Kincade, Paul W ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

B lymphopoiesis; Lymphoid progenitors; Stem cells; Stromal cells; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULTHOOD; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; DOWN REGULATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; INFECTION; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOPOIESIS; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL;

EID: 32544459236     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2005.10.005     Document Type: Review

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