TCF-1 upregulation identifies early innate lymphoid progenitors in the bone marrow

Nature Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1044-1050

  Yang, Qi ^a,b   Li, Fengyin ^c   Harly, Christelle ^a   Xing, Shaojun ^c   Ye, Longyun ^a   Xia, Xuefeng ^b   Wang, Haikun ^b   Wang, Xinxin ^b   Yu, Shuyang ^c   Zhou, Xinyuan ^c   Cam, Maggie ^a   Xue, Hai Hui ^c   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INNATE LYMPHOID PROGENITOR; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; T CELL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84941945421     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.3248     Document Type: Article

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