Thymic nurse cells: Their functional ultrastructure

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 250-266

  Brelińska, Renata ^a   Warchol, Jerzy B ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Epithelial nurse cell; Lympho epithelial complexes; Scanning electron microscopy; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NURSING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THYMUS;

CELL COMPLEXES; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL NURSE CELL; IN-VITRO; LITERATURE DATA; LYMPHO-EPITHELIAL COMPLEX; THYMOCYTES;

CELLS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1842373334     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970801)38:3<250::AID-JEMT6>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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