In vitro intrathymic differentiation kinetics of human fetal liver CD34+CD38- progenitors reveals a phenotypically defined dendritic/T-NK precursor split

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 60-68

  Plum, Jean ^a   De Smedt, Magda ^a   Verhasselt, Bruno ^a   Offner, Fritz ^a   Kerre, Tessa ^a   Vanhecke, Dominique ^a   Leclercq, Georges ^a   Vandekerckhove, Bart ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD38 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITIC CELL; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADP-RIBOSYL CYCLASE; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD34; ANTIGENS, CD38; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITIC CELLS; FETUS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; KINETICS; LIVER; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, SCID; NAD+ NUCLEOSIDASE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032907557     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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