Transcription factor expression dynamics of early T-lymphocyte specification and commitment

Developmental Biology

Volumn 325, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 444-467

  David Fung, Elizabeth Sharon ^a   Butler, Robert ^a   Buzi, Gentian ^b   Yui, Mary A ^a   Diamond, Rochelle A ^a   Anderson, Michele K ^a   Rowen, Lee ^c   Rothenberg, Ellen V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematopoiesis; Lineage commitment; Notch; T cell development; Thymus

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 58149108938     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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