Lymphocyte trafficking across high endothelial venules: Dogmas and enigmas

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 360-370

  Miyasaka, Masayuki ^a   Tanaka, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSPORT; ENDOTHELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; VENULE;

EID: 2442606191     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1354     Document Type: Review

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