Thymic microenvironments, 3-D versus 2-D?

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-64

  Van Ewijk, Willem ^a   Wang, BaoPing ^b   Holländer, Georg ^c   Kawamoto, Hiroshi ^d   Spanopoulou, Eugenia ^e   Itoi, Manami ^f   Amagai, Takashi ^f   Jiang, Yu Fei ^a,h   Germeraad, Wilfred T V ^g   Chen, Wei Fung ^h   Katsura, Yoshimoto ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Crosstalk; Epithelial cells; Lympho stromal interaction; Microenvironments; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MACROPHAGE; RETICULUM CELL; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0033042560     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/smim.1998.0158     Document Type: Article

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