Abnormal thymic microenvironment in insulin-like growth factor-II transgenic mice

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 100-112

  Savino, Wilson ^a,b   Cotta de Almeida, Vinícius ^a,c   Van Buul Offers, Sylvia C ^d   Koster, Johanna G ^d   Dardenne, Mireille ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

1 integrins; Cytokeratins; Fibronectin; Insulin like growth factor II; Laminin; Perivascular spaces; Thymic epithelium; Thymocytes; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SOMATOMEDIN B; THYMULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; LAMININ; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMIC FACTOR, CIRCULATING; THYMUS GLAND; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 17244366415     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083582     Document Type: Article

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