Comment on "cutting edge: Human CD4-CD8- thymocytes express FOXP3 in the absence of a TCR"

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 857-858

  Battaglia, Alessandra ^a   Evoli, Amelia ^a   Scambia, Giovanni ^a   Fattorossi, Andrea ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; CD3 ANTIGEN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANTIBODY LABELING; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LETTER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NOTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANTIGENS, CD3; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 49049110981     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.2.857     Document Type: Letter

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