Homing of hemopoietic precursor cells to the fetal rat thymus: Intercellular contact-controlled cell migration and development of the thymic microenvironment

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 322, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 393-405

  Brelinska, Renata ^a   Malinska, Agnieszka ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dendritic cell; Epithelial cell; Fibroblast; Organogenesis; Rat (Wistar); Thymus; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN S 100;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; GESTATION PERIOD; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYME; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STROMA CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 27944484377     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-005-1079-7     Document Type: Article

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