Functional expression of receptors for calcitonin gene-related peptide, calcitonin, and vasoactive intestinal peptide in the human thymus and thymomas from myasthenia gravis patients

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2103-2112

  Marie, J C ^a,c   Wakkach, A ^b   Coudray, A M ^a   Chastre, E ^a   Berrih Aknin, S ^b   Gespach, C ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^b CENTRE CHIRURGICAL MARIE LANNELONGUE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; CALCITONIN RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOKERATIN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; KERATIN; PEPTIDE HISTIDINE METHIONINE; PEPTIDE HISTIDINE VALINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, VIRAL, TUMOR; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTORS, CALCITONIN; RECEPTORS, CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

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