The Innate Lymphoid Cell Precursor

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2016, Pages 299-316

  Ishizuka, Isabel E ^a   Constantinides, Michael G ^a,c   Gudjonson, Herman ^a,b   Bendelac, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Innate lymphoid cell development; Innate lymphoid cell precursor; Promyelocytic leukemia zinc factor; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA4 BETA7 INTEGRIN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR6; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 2; INTEGRIN; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PLZF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZBTB16; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS NFIL3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOKINE; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; ZBTB16 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE CELL; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID CELL LINE; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELLS; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 84969765000     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: 15453278     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-041015-055549     Document Type: Review

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