Determining thymic output quantitatively: Using models to interpret experimental T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) data

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-34

  Ribeiro, Ruy M ^a   Perelson, Alan S ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Anti retroviral therapy; Human immunodeficiency virus; Mathematical modeling; T cells; T cell receptor excision circles

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

AGING; CELL LABELING; CELL MIGRATION; EXCISION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 33947253233     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2006.00493.x     Document Type: Review

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