Cutting edge: Thymocyte-independent and thymocyte-dependent phases of epithelial patterning in the fetal thymus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2842-2845

  Klug, David B ^a   Carter, Carla ^a   Gimenez Conti, Irma B ^a   Richie, Ellen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON CYTOKINE RECEPTOR GAMMA; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; KERATIN; KERATIN 5; KERATIN 8; RAG2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0037105620     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.6.2842     Document Type: Article

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