Deconstructing Ras Signaling in the Thymus

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2748-2759

  Kortum, Robert L ^a   Sommers, Connie L ^a   Pinski, John M ^a   Alexander, Clayton P ^a   Merrill, Robert K ^a   Li, Wenmei ^a   Love, Paul E ^b   Samelson, Lawrence E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SON OF SEVENLESS PROTEINS; SOS1 PROTEIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84863992179     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00317-12     Document Type: Article

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