CCR7-dependent cortex-to-medulla migration of positively selected thymocytes is essential for establishing central tolerance

Immunity

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-177

  Kurobe, Hirotsugu ^a   Liu, Cunlan ^a   Ueno, Tomoo ^a,c   Saito, Fumi ^a   Ohigashi, Izumi ^a   Seach, Natalie ^c   Arakaki, Rieko ^a   Hayashi, Yoshio ^a   Kitagawa, Tetsuya ^a   Lipp, Martin ^b   Boyd, Richard L ^c   Takahama, Yousuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; LIGAND; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DACRYOADENITIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; KINETICS; LACRIMAL GLAND DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIALOADENITIS; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHINGOSINE; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 32244432265     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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