The Gli3 transcription factor expressed in the thymus stroma controls thymocyte negative selection via hedgehog-dependent and -independent mechanisms

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3023-3032

  Hager Theodorides, Ariadne L ^a   Furmanski, Anna L ^a   Ross, Susan E ^a   Outram, Susan V ^a   Rowbotham, Nicola J ^a   Crompton, Tessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD5 ANTIGEN; CELLULAR RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; GLI3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GROWTH INHIBITOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; STROMAL CELLS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 70349235509     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0900152     Document Type: Article

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