The thymus is a site of mast cell development in chicken embryos

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 243-249

  Crivellato, E ^a   Nico, B ^b   Battistig, M ^a   Beltrami, C A ^a   Ribatti, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immune functions; Interdigitating cells; Mast cell granules; Piecemeal degranulation; Thymic medulla

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEGRANULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; EXOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HATCHING; HEMATOPOIESIS; MAST CELL; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; MAST CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ORGANOGENESIS; SECRETORY VESICLES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 17644387144     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-004-0439-5     Document Type: Article

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