Immunopathologic changes in the thymus during the acute stage of experimentally induced feline immunodeficiency virus infection in juvenile cats

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 8632-8641

  Woo, Jennifer C ^a   Dean, Gregg A ^a   Pedersen, Niels C ^a   Moore, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFLAMMATORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0030754327     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.11.8632-8641.1997     Document Type: Article

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