The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
anomaly in the process of producing effector T cells from naive T cells
Comment:
This process requires recognition of a foreign peptide fragment bound to self-MHC and the simultaneous delivery of a co-stimulatory signal by an antigen presenting cell; it results in the clonal expansion of naive T cells and their differentiation into armed effector cells.