Regulation and kinetics of premigrant thymocyte expansion

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 738-746

  Le Campion, Armelle ^a   Vasseur, Florence ^a   Pénit, Claude ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Development; Emigration; Mouse chimera; Proliferation; Thymus

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL KINETICS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHIMERA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0033994372     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200003)30:3<738::AID-IMMU738>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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