Expression of TCRαβ partly rescues developmental arrest and apoptosis of αβ T cells in Bcl11b-/- mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 176, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 5871-5879

  Inoue, Jun ^a   Kanefuji, Tsutomu ^a   Okazuka, Kiyoshi ^a   Watanabe, Hisami ^c   Mishima, Yukio ^a,b   Kominami, Ryo ^a,b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SURFACE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 33646481325     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.10.5871     Document Type: Article

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