T cell immunity as a tool for studying epigenetic regulation of cellular differentiation

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Russ, Brendan E ^a   Prier, Julia E ^a   Rao, Sudha ^b   Turner, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; T cell differentiation; T cell Immunity; T cell memory; Viral immunity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890264542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00218     Document Type: Article

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