Murine neonatal recent thymic emigrants are phenotypically and functionally distinct from adult recent thymic emigrants

Blood

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5635-5643

  Opiela, Shannon J ^a   Koru Sengul, Tulay ^a   Adkins, Becky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR ALPHA; STAT5 PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RAG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECENT THYMIC EMIGRANT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THYMUS; AGING; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 67049088422     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-08-173658     Document Type: Article

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