Early growth response gene-2 (egr-2) regulates the development of b and t cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Li, Suling ^a   Symonds, Alistair L J ^b   Zhu, Bo ^b,c   Liu, Mengya ^a   Raymond, Meera V ^b   Miao, Tizong ^b   Wang, Ping ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD2 ANTIGEN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 2; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 3; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; EGR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NOTCH1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NR4A1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NUR77; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BONE MARROW; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 2; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 4, GROUP A, MEMBER 1; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 79954992737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018498     Document Type: Article

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