Mast cell lineage diversion of T lineage precursors by the essential T cell transcription factor GATA-3

Nature Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 845-855

  Taghon, Tom ^a   Yui, Mary A ^b   Rothenberg, Ellen V ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 3; NOTCH RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34250217913     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1486     Document Type: Article

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