Interleukin-7 receptor expression: Intelligent design

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-154

  Mazzucchelli, Renata ^a   Durum, Scott K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; CD135 ANTIGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 15 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR ALPHA; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 1; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MEMORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; MICE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 33846632842     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2023     Document Type: Review

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