Lymphocyte development in neonatal and adult c-Kit-deficient (c-KitW/W) mice

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 512, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-10

  Waskow, Claudia ^a   Rodewald, Hans Reimer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL VIABILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMUS GRAFT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036430133     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0757-4_1     Document Type: Review

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