Impact of cellular lifespan on the T cell receptor repertoire

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1978-1985

  Hamrouni, Abdelbasset ^a,b   Olsson, Anna ^a   Wiegers, G Jan ^a   Villunger, Andreas ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2 family; BH3 only proteins; TCR rearrangement

Indexed keywords

BIM PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN KINASE LCK; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; VAV PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VDJ EXON;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34447521712     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200636632     Document Type: Article

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