Conditional deletion of cytokine receptor chains reveals that IL-7 and IL-15 specify CD8 cytotoxic lineage fate in the thymus.

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Published in J Exp Med on October 29, 2012

Authors

Tom M McCaughtry1, Ruth Etzensperger, Amala Alag, Xuguang Tai, Sema Kurtulus, Jung-Hyun Park, Alex Grinberg, Paul Love, Lionel Feigenbaum, Batu Erman, Alfred Singer

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1: Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

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