Variable NKG2 expression in the peripheral blood lymphocytes of rhesus monkeys

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 205-212

  Labonte, M L ^a   Letvin, Norman L ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CD94 NKG2; Natural killer cells; Non human primate; Semi quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

CD94 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2A; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2B; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2C; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2C2; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOCYTES; MACACA MULATTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 8144220647     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2004.02625.x     Document Type: Article

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