Regulation of thymus size by competition for stromal niches among early T cell progenitors

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1604-1611

  Prockop, Susan E ^a   Petrie, Howard T ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STROMA; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 3242747324     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.3.1604     Document Type: Article

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