A conduit system distributes chemokines and small blood-borne molecules through the splenic white pulp

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 505-512

  Nolte, Martijn A ^a   Beliën, Jeroen A M ^a   Schadee Eestermans, Inge ^a   Jansen, Wendy ^a   Unger, Wendy W J ^a   Van Rooijen, Nico ^a   Kraal, Georg ^a   Mebius, Reina E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antigen; Chemokine; Mouse; Reticular network; Spleen

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CHEMOKINE; COLLAGEN FIBER; DEXTRAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHEMOKINES; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; LYMPHOTOXIN-ALPHA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES; SPLEEN;

EID: 0042624814     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021801     Document Type: Article

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