Notch signaling during human T cell development

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 360, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-97

  Taghon, Tom ^a   Waegemans, Els ^a   Van De Walle, Inge ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; NOTCH3 RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL MATURATION; ERYTHROID CELL; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84868324298     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82-2012-230     Document Type: Article

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