Molecular and cellular aspects of induced thymus development in recombinase-deficient mice

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2476-2483

  Porcellini, Simona ^a   Panigada, Maddalena ^a   Grassi, Fabio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b H S Raffaele Sci Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Rag 2( ); Stromal cell; Thymus

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; KERATIN; LYMPHOTACTIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD3; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE; CYTOKINES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECOMBINASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032767417     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199908)29:08<2476::AID-IMMU2476>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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