Allorecognition in a Basal Chordate Consists of Independent Activating and Inhibitory Pathways

Immunity

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 616-626

  McKitrick, Tanya R ^a,b   Muscat, Christina C ^b   Pierce, James D ^a   Bhattacharya, Deepta ^c   De Tomaso, Anthony W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 79954961338     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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