Multiple constraints at the level of TCRα rearrangement impact Vα14i NKT cell development

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2228-2234

  Hager, Elizabeth ^a,c   Hawwari, Abbas ^b   Matsuda, Jennifer L ^a   Krangel, Michael S ^b   Gapin, Laurent ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TCRALPHA GENE; THYMOCYTE; VA14I GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NATURAL KILLER CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

CD1 ANTIGEN; CD1D ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR ROR GAMMA; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR ROR-GAMMA; PROTEIN KINASE FYN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD1; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FYN; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 34848914791     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.4.2228     Document Type: Article

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