Morphological study of thymus stromal cells (TEL-2 cell) which play a role in the elimination of double positive immature thymocytes by phagocytosis

Anatomical Record

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 271-283

  Kawabuchi, Masaru ^a   Nakamura, Keiichiro ^a   Hirata, Kazuho ^a   Mori, Keiko ^b   Nakashima, Manabu ^b   Kishi, Hiroyuki ^b   Islam, Shariful ^a   Chongjian, Zhou ^a   Watanabe, Takeshi ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Electron microscopy; Histochemistry; Mouse; Phagocytosis; Stromal cells; T cell development; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THYMOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; STROMAL CELLS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0030053617     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199603)244:3<271::AID-AR1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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