Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural evidence for myelopoiesis in the scid/scid mouse thymus

Histochemical Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 651-660

  Kendall, Marion D ^a   Lane, David P ^b,d   Schumacher, Udo ^c,d  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Biochemistry   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GRANULOCYTE; GRANULOPOIESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MAST CELL; MOUSE; MYELOPOIESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LEUKOPOIESIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; MICROSCOPY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032728870     PISSN: 00182214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003895519669     Document Type: Article

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