Murine thymic nurse cells and rosettes: Analysis of adhesion molecule expression using confocal microscopy and a simplified enrichment method

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1293-1297

  Oliveira dos Santos, Antonio J ^a   Rieker Geley, Theresa ^a   Recheis, Heidrun ^a   Wick, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Thymic nurse cell; Thymic rosette; Thymocyte

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; ROSETTE FORMATION; STROMA CELL; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0030865317     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215549704500912     Document Type: Article

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