Trafficking from the bone marrow to the thymus: A prerequisite for thymopoiesis

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 209, Issue , 2006, Pages 47-57

  Schwarz, Benjamin A ^a   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; PROTEINASE;

BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOPOIESIS; THYMUS FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOKINES; CYTOKINES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 33645074137     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2006.00350.x     Document Type: Review

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