An essential role for CD44 variant isoforms in epidermal langerhans cell and blood dendritic cell function

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1137-1147

  Weiss, Johannes M ^a   Sleeman, Jonathan ^b   Renkl, Andreas C ^a   Dittmar, Henning ^a   Termeer, Christian C ^a   Taxis, Sabine ^a   Howells, Norma ^b   Hofmann, Martin ^b   Köhler, Gabriele ^a   Schöpf, Erwin ^a   Ponta, Helmut ^b   Herrlich, Peter ^b   Simon, Jan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTEN; HERMES ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; EPIDERMIS CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LANGERHANS CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENS, CD44; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; DENDRITIC CELLS; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; ISOMERISM; LANGERHANS CELLS; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SKIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 15144348470     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.137.5.1137     Document Type: Article

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