GKLF in thymus epithelium as a developmentally regulated element of thymocyte-stroma cross-talk

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 103-113

  Panigada, Maddalena ^a   Porcellini, Simona ^a   Sutti, Francesca ^a   Doneda, Luisa ^b   Pozzoli, Ombretta ^a   Consalez, G Giacomo ^a   Guttinger, Maria ^a   Grassi, Fabio ^a,b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Hematopoiesis; Stromal cells; Thymus; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KINETICS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMAL CELLS; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0032914728     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00237-8     Document Type: Article

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