Thymic anlage is colonized by progenitors restricted to T, NK, and dendritic cell lineages

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2525-2532

  Masuda, Kyoko ^a,b   Itoi, Manami ^c   Amagai, Takashi ^c   Minato, Nagahiro ^a   Katsura, Yoshimoto ^d   Kawamoto, Hiroshi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CLONE; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYME CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

EID: 14044268173     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.5.2525     Document Type: Article

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