Identification of a thymic epithelial cell subset sharing expression of the class Ib HLA-G molecule with fetal trophoblasts

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 289-298

  Crisa, Laura ^a   McMaster, Michael T ^b   Ishii, Jennifer K ^a   Fisher, Susan J ^b   Salomon, Daniel R ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TYPE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; THYMUS; TROPHOBLAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; THYMUS GLAND; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0030876686     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.186.2.289     Document Type: Article

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