Cutting edge: Three-dimensional architecture of the thymus is required to maintain delta-like expression necessary for inducing T cell development

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 730-734

  Mohtashami, Mahmood ^a   Zúñiga Pflücker, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN DELTA LIKE 1; PROTEIN DELTA LIKE 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DLK1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PREADIPOCYTE FACTOR 1; PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PREGNANCY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 30744465918     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.2.730     Document Type: Article

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