Presence of B Cell Progenitors in the Thymus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4193-4199

  Mori, Shin Ichiro ^a   Inaba, Muneo ^a   Sugihara, Akira ^a   Taketani, Shigeru ^a   Doi, Hiroshi ^a   Fukuba, Yoh ^b   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a   Adachi, Yasushi ^a   Inaba, Kayo ^c   Fukuhara, Shirou ^a   Ikehara, Susumu ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MATSUE RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CD45 ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LEUKOSIALIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN; SPN PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C3H MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD43; ANTIGENS, CD45; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, B-LYMPHOCYTE; CD40 LIGAND; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; SIALOGLYCOPROTEINS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031137517     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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