Age-dependent incidence, time course, and consequences of thymic renewal in adults

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 930-939

  Hakim, Frances T ^a   Memon, Sarfraz A ^a   Cepeda, Rosemarie ^a   Jones, Elizabeth C ^b   Chow, Catherine K ^b   Kasten Sportes, Claude ^a   Odom, Jeanne ^a   Vance, Barbara A ^a   Christensen, Barbara L ^a   Mackall, Crystal L ^a   Gress, Ronald E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; PADGEM PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL RENEWAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; MEMORY CELL; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TCR REARRANGEMENT EXCISION CIRCLE BEARING CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS FUNCTION; TURNOVER TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD45; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; STATISTICS; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 20144387499     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200522492     Document Type: Article

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