Transplantation of cultured thymic fragments: II. Results in nude mice*

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 398-415

  Hong, Richard ^a   Schulte Wissermann, Hermann ^a,b   Jarrett Toth, Esther ^a   Horowitz, Sheldon D ^a   Manning, Dean D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; MOUSE; SKIN GRAFT; THEORETICAL STUDY; THYMUS; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, NUDE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0018383056     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.149.2.398     Document Type: Article

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