NADPH diaphorase-positive dendritic profiles in rat thymus are discrete from autofluorescent cells, immunoreactive for inducible nitric oxide synthase, and show strain-specific abundance differences

Immunology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 148-155

  Downing, J E G ^a   Virag, L ^b,d   Jones, I W ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; INTERDIGITATING CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAINING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031711865     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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