The three-dimensional structure of human splenic white pulp compartments

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 655-663

  Steiniger, Birte ^a,b   Rüttinger, Lars ^a   Barth, Peter J ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Inst of Anatomy and Cell Biology   (Germany)

Author keywords

CCL21; CD20; CD3; Follicles; Human spleen; Marginal zone; T cell regions; White pulp

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D;

ADULT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; LYMPH FOLLICLE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; SPLEEN WHITE PULP; STAINING; T LYMPHOCYTE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SECTION;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0242500254     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215540305100511     Document Type: Article

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