Identification and characterization of major histocompatibility complex class II compartments in cortical thymic epithelial cells

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 798-806

  Arudchelvan, Yamini ^a   Nishimura, Yukio ^b   Tokuda, Nobuko ^a   Sawada, Tomoo ^a   Ueyama, Yoshiya ^a   Fukumoto, Tetsuo ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical thymic epithelial cells; Cytoplasmic vacuoles; Immunoelectron microscopy; MHC class II compartments

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; CLASS II ASSOCIATED INVARIANT CHAIN PEPTIDE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLASS II ASSOCIATED INVARIANT CHAIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOSOME; FEMALE; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 0141959287     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10081     Document Type: Article

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