Bidirectional interactions between thymocytes and thymic epithelial cell lines in vitro

Developmental Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 71-79

  Čolić, Miodrag ^a   Vučević, Dragana ^a   Popović, Petar ^a   Dujić, Aleksandar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Apoptosis; Cytokines; Proliferation; Thymic epithelial cells; Thymocytes

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; HELPER CELL; HYBRIDOMA; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; ILEX COOKII; SIGANUS;

EID: 0031714914     PISSN: 10446672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1998/80391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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