Revisiting thymic positive selection and the mature T cell repertoire for antigen

Immunity

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 181-190

  Vrisekoop, Nienke ^a   Monteiro, João P ^b   Mandl, Judith N ^b   Germain, Ronald N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SIZE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE STRUCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL REPERTOIRE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THEORY; THYMUS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITOPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; MICE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84907308588     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2014.07.007     Document Type: Review

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