The equine thymus microenvironment: A morphological and immunohistochemical analysis

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-264

  Contreiras, Ellen C ^a,b   Lenzi, Henrique L ^a   Meirelles, Maria N L ^a   Caputo, Luzia F G ^a   Calado, Theresinha J C ^c   Villa Verde, Déa M S ^a   Savino, Wilson ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Equine thymus; Extracellular matrix; Hassall's corpuscles; Lymphatic vessels; Non lymphoid hematopoiesis; Thymic epithelium; Thymic microenvironment; Thymic nurse cells

Indexed keywords

SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HORSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0345414599     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(03)00134-4     Document Type: Article

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