Cutting edge: Thymic NK cells develop independently from T cell precursors

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4993-4997

  Ribeiro, Vera S G ^a,b,c   Hasan, Milena ^a,b,e   Wilson, Anne ^d   Boucontet, Laurent ^b,e   Pereira, Pablo ^b,e   Lesjean Pottier, Sarah ^a,b   Satoh Takayama, Naoko ^a,b   Di Santo, James P ^a,b   Vosshenrich, Christian A J ^a,b  

^a Unité d'Immunité Innée   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RAG2 PROTEIN; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; GENE LOCUS; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECURSOR CELLS, T-LYMPHOID; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 78149490284     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1002273     Document Type: Article

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