Negative selection, not receptor editing, is a physiological response of autoreactive thymocytes

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 210, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1911-1918

  Kreslavsky, Taras ^a   Kim, Hye Jung ^a   Koralov, Sergei B ^b   Ghitza, Dvora ^b   Buch, Thorsten ^c   Cantor, Harvey ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^b   Von Boehmer, Harald ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CLONAL SELECTION, ANTIGEN-MEDIATED; FEMALE; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT, ALPHA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC LOCI; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; THYMOCYTES;

EID: 84885439735     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20130876     Document Type: Article

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