Thymus lineage commitment: a single switch.
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چکیده
In this issue of Immunity, He et al. (2008) establish the logic and circuitry that determine CD4-CD8 lineage specification. It all comes down to an eighty base pair silencer switch.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Immunity
دوره 28 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008