Potent immunostimulatory dendritic cells can be cultured in bulk from progenitors in normal infant and adult myasthenic human thymus

Immunology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 325-332

  Hill, M E ^a   Ferguson, D J P ^a   Austyn, J M ^a   Newsom Davis, J ^a   Willcox, H N A ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHILD; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MITOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 0033028080     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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