Differential expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in fetal and neonatal mouse thymus

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 140-154

  Kuo, Yen Ping ^a   Lucero, Linda ^a   Michaels, Jennifer ^b   DeLuca, Dominick ^b   Lukas, Ronald J ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Nicotine; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; T cells; Thymus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN CULTURE; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA CELL; THYMUS;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0036711168     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(02)00220-5     Document Type: Article

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