Involvement of E-cadherin in thymus organogenesis and thymocyte maturation

Immunity

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 257-264

  Müller, Kai M ^a   Luedecker, Carrie J ^a   Udey, Mark C ^b   Farr, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0342276094     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80328-3     Document Type: Article

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