Progenitor migration to the thymus and T cell lineage commitment

Immunologic Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 65-74

  Sambandam, Arivazhagan ^a   Bell, J Jeremiah ^a   Schwarz, Benjamin A ^a   Zediak, Valerie P ^a   Chi, Anthony W ^a   Zlotoff, Daniel A ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Shanthi Lakshmi ^a   Burg, Jennifer M ^a   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Early T cell development; Notch; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CELL AGING; CELL HOMING; CELL KINETICS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; AGING; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOKINES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 61849118560     PISSN: 0257277X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12026-008-8035-z     Document Type: Review

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