The earliest thymic progenitors in adults are restricted to T, NK, and dendritic cell lineage and have a potential to form more diverse TCRβ chains than fetal progenitors

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 175, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5848-5856

  Lu, Min ^a,b   Tayu, Risa ^b,c   Ikawa, Tomokatsu ^d   Masuda, Kyoko ^a   Matsumoto, Isamu ^c   Mugishima, Hideo ^b   Kawamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Katsura, Yoshimoto ^a,b  

^a RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ADULT THYMUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FETUS CELL; FETUS LIVER; FETUS THYMUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 27144501454     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.9.5848     Document Type: Article

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