Development and selection of γδ T cells

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-31

  Xiong, Na ^a,b   Raulet, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

T cells; T cell development; T cell receptor gene rearrangement; T cell receptors; Tissue localization

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGAND BINDING; LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, DELTA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 33846805937     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2006.00478.x     Document Type: Review

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