Article
The molecular basis of X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency: the role of the interleukin-2 receptor gamma chain as a common gamma chain, gamma c.
Immunological reviews - 1 Apr 1994
Leonard W J, Noguchi M, Russell S M, McBride O W
Abstract excerpt
X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency is characterized by severe and persistent infections from early life resulting from profound impairment of both cellular and humoral immune function. XSCID is characterized by an absence or diminished number of T cells and histologic evidence of hypoplastic and abnormal differention of the thymic epithelium. The discovery that this disease results from the mutations of...
Topics
- Animals
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Mice
- Molecular Biology
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Receptors, Interleukin
- Receptors, Interleukin-2
- Receptors, Interleukin-4
- Receptors, Interleukin-7
