Stepwise development of thymic microenvironments in vivo is regulated by thymocyte subsets

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1583-1591

  Van Ewijk, Willem ^a   Holländer, Georg ^c   Terhorst, Cox ^b   Wang, Baoping ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Crosstalk; Epithelium; Lymphostromal interaction; Microenvironment; Mouse; RAG(null); Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0343183281     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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