Post-thymic maturation: Young T cells assert their individuality

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 544-549

  Fink, Pamela J ^a   Hendricks, Deborah W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECENT THYMIC EMIGRANT; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MICE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 79960843999     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3028     Document Type: Review

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