Forkhead-box transcription factors and their role in the immune system

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 889-899

  Coffer, Paul J ^a   Burgering, Boudewijn M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; DNA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; THYMUS GLAND; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 8544265317     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1488     Document Type: Review

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