The effects of age, thymectomy, and HIV infection on α and β TCR excision circles in naive T cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 177, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 4391-4401

  Van Den Dool, Carline ^a,b   De Boer, Rob J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 33749124092     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.7.4391     Document Type: Article

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