Differential expression of MHC class II antigens and cathepsin L by subtypes of cortical epithelial cells in the rat thymus: An immunoelectron microscopic study

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 173-181

  Arudchelvan, Yamini ^a   Nishimura, Yukio ^b   Tokuda, Nobuko ^a   Sawada, Tomoo ^a   Shinozaki, Fumihiko ^a   Fukumoto, Tetsuo ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cathepsin L; Epithelial subtypes; Immunoelectron microscopy; MHC class II antigen; Rat; Thymic cortex

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN; CATHEPSIN L; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; RAT; THYMUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; CATHEPSINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS; THYMUS GLAND;

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; RATS; T-CELLS;

CATHEPSIN L; CLASS II; CORTEXES; EPITHELIAL SUBTYPE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLASS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLASS II ANTIGEN; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; THYMIC CORTEX; THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELLS;

ANTIGENS;

EID: 0036043051     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/51.3.173     Document Type: Article

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