Cutting edge: Presence of progenitors restricted to T, B, or myeloid lineage, but absence of multipotent stem cells, in the murine fetal thymus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3799-3802

  Kawamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Ohmura, Koichiro ^a   Katsura, Yoshimoto ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS LIVER; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOPOIESIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; LEUKOPOIESIS; MICE; PREGNANCY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032531591     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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