Elevated T cell receptor signaling identifies a thymic precursor to the TCRαβ+CD4-CD8β- intraepithelial lymphocyte lineage

Immunity

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 219-229

  McDonald, Benjamin D ^a   Bunker, Jeffrey J ^a   Ishizuka, Isabel E ^a   Jabri, Bana ^a   Bendelac, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; APOPTOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONAL DELETION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84907370954     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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