Role of thymic organ structure and stromal composition in steady-state postnatal T-cell production

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 189, Issue , 2002, Pages 8-20

  Petrie, Howard T ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

BLOOD VESSEL; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOPOIESIS; NEURAL CREST; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0036862561     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2002.18902.x     Document Type: Review

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