Quantification of total T-cell receptor diversity by flow cytometry and spectratyping

BMC Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ciupe, Stanca M ^a   Devlin, Blythe H ^b   Markert, Mary Louise ^b   Kepler, Thomas B ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; RNA ISOLATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTIGENS, CD3; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84881084043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-14-35     Document Type: Article

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