A comparative analysis of the murine thymic microenvironment in normal, autoimmune, and immunodeficiency states

Developmental Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 79-89

  Takeoka, Yuichi ^a,b   Chen, Shao Yuan ^a   Boyd, Richard L ^c   Tsuneyama, Koichi ^a,f   Taguchi, Nobuhisa ^b   Morita, Shinji ^b   Yago, Hisashi ^b   Suehiro, Seishi ^b   Ansari, Aftab A ^d   Shultz, Leonard D ^e   Gershwin, M Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co   (Japan)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Toyama City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aly aly mouse; NOD mouse; NOD scid mouse; NZB mouse; SM J mouse; Thymic microenvironment

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS;

EID: 12644278867     PISSN: 10446672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1997/69270     Document Type: Article

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