Organization of thymic medullary epithelial heterogeneity: Implications for mechanisms of epithelial differentiation

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 189, Issue , 2002, Pages 20-27

  Farr, Andrew G ^a   Dooley, James L ^a   Erickson, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ENDODERM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; REVIEW; STEM CELL; THYMUS; THYROID FOLLICLE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0036864744     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2002.18903.x     Document Type: Review

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