Upregulation of receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand expression in the thymic subcapsular, paraseptal, perivascular, and medullary epithelial cells during thymus regeneration

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 123, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 491-500

  Lee, Hee Woo ^a   Kim, Bong Seon ^a   Kim, Hyung Jin ^a   Lee, Choong Won ^b   Yoo, Hyun Jung ^a   Kim, Jae Bong ^a   Yoon, Sik ^a  

^a Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Double immunohistochemistry; Receptor activator of nuclear factor (NF) B ligand (RANKL); Thymic epithelial cells; Thymic regeneration; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPITHELIUM CELL; INVOLUTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TISSUE REGENERATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUTAGENS; RANK LIGAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; THYMUS GLAND; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 21544440604     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-005-0751-z     Document Type: Article

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