200 Million Thymocytes and I: A Beginner’s Survival Guide to T Cell Development

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1323, Issue , 2016, Pages 3-21

  Vacchio, Melanie S ^a   Ciucci, Thomas ^a   Bosselut, Rémy ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Negative selection; Positive selection; T cell development; T cell receptor; T cells; TCR gene rearrangement

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 84940208204     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2809-5_1     Document Type: Article

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