Detection of spliced and unspliced forms of germline TCR-Vβ transcripts in extrathymic lymphoid sites

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1099-1111

  Abbey, Janice L ^a   O'Neill, Helen C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Germline transcription; T cell receptor; T cells

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CD1 ANTIGEN; RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BRAIN; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART; IN VIVO CULTURE; LIVER; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; INTRONS; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MUS;

EID: 35549003669     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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