T-cell lineage determination

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-22

  Yang, Qi ^a   Jeremiah Bell, J ^a   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early thymic progenitors; Lineage commitment specification; Notch signal; Thymus settling progenitors; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CELL FATE; CELL HOMING; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; HUMANS; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77958553291     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2010.00956.x     Document Type: Article

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