• Article  

      Coexpression of H2-Mb and H2-Ab genes during fetal and postnatal development 

      Georgiades, Pantelis; Kieszkiewicz, J.; Rozycka, M.; Brickell, P. M.; Lund, T. (1996)
      The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-like molecules, H2-M, have an essential role in processing and presentation of antigens by the MHC class II molecules, because functional inactivation of these genes lead ...
    • Article  

      Effect of recent thymic emigrants on progression of HIV-1 disease 

      Hatzakis, Angelos E.; Touloumi, G.; Karanicolas, R.; Karafoulidou, A.; Mandalaki, T.; Anastassopoulou, C. G.; Zhang, L.; Goedert, J. J.; Ho, David D.; Kostrikis, Leontios G. (2000)
      Background. The concentration of T-cell receptor-rearrangement excision DNA circles (TREC) in peripheral-blood T cells is a marker of recent thymic emigrant αβ T cells. We studied the predictive ability of measurements of ...
    • Article  

      Recent thymic emigrants and prognosis in T- and B-cell childhood hematopoietic malignancies 

      Petridou, E.; Klimentopoulou, A. E.; Moustaki, M.; Kostrikis, Leontios G.; Hatzakis, Angelos E.; Trichopoulos, D. (2002)
      The concentration of T-cell receptor rearrangement excision DNA circles (TRECs) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) is currently known to be a marker of recent thymic emigrants. We evaluated the hypothesis that ...