The murine thymic microenvironment: Changes with age

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-12

  Takeoka, Yuichi ^a,b   Chen, Shao Yuan ^a   Yago, Hisashi ^b   Boyd, Richard L ^c   Suehiro, Seishi ^b   Shultz, Leonard D ^e   Ansari, Aftab A ^d   Gershwin, M Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co   (Japan)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged thymus; Thymic epithelium; Thymic microenvironment

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DEATH; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUPUS VULGARIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0029786204     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: 14230097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000237337     Document Type: Article

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