Development of thymic microenvironments in vitro is oxygen-dependent and requires permanent presence of T-cell progenitors

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1225-1235

  Germeraad, Wilfred T V ^a   Kawamoto, Hiroshi ^b   Itoi, Manami ^c   Jiang, Yufei ^d   Amagai, Takashi ^c   Katsura, Yoshimoto ^e   Van Ewijk, Willem ^f  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crosstalk; Fetal thymic organ culture; Lympho stromal interaction; T cell development; Thymic epithelium

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DEOXYGUANOSINE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; EPITHELIUM; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0041819789     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215540305100913     Document Type: Article

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