Hematopoietic progenitor cells as possible origins of epithelial thymoma in a human T lymphocyte virus type I pX gene transgenic rat model

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 245-252

  Tsuchikawa, Takahiro ^a   Ikeda, Hitoshi ^a   Kikuchi, Kazunori ^a,c   Tsuji, Takahiro ^a   Baba, Tomohisa ^a   Ishizu, Akihiro ^a   Tanaka, Yuetsu ^b   Kato, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshiki, Takashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone marrow cell transfer; Epithelial thymoma; HTLV I pX gene; Progenitor cell; Transgenic rat

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE LCK; PROTEIN P56; ULEX EUROPAEUS AGGLUTININ; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT LECTIN; ULEX EUROPAEUS LECTINS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOMA; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; DISEASE MODEL; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, PX; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE SPECIFIC PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE P56(LCK); MALE; PLANT LECTINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1542609144     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700028     Document Type: Article

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