Thymic emigration: When and how T cells leave home

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2265-2270

  Weinreich, Michael A ^a   Hogquist, Kristin A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b 6 108 Nils Hasselmo Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; FINGOLIMOD; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMIDAZOLE; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; PLERIXAFOR; RAG2 PROTEIN; SPHINGOLIPID; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; THERMOZYMOCIDIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURFACE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 53149130236     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2265     Document Type: Short Survey

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