12th International Conference on Lymphoid Tissues and Germinal Centres in Immune Reactions: Part 2: An adult thymic stromal-cell suspension model for in vitro positive selection

Developmental Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 157-170

  Chidgey, Ann P ^a   Pircher, Hanspeter ^b   Macdonald, H Robson ^c   Boyd, Richard L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

LCMV; Peptides; Positive selection; T cell differentiation; Thymic selection

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD69 ANTIGEN; H2 ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL KINETICS; CELL SELECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; H-2 ANTIGENS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032239564     PISSN: 10446672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1998/10534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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