Human thymus contains multipotent progenitors with T/B lymphoid, myeloid, and erythroid lineage potential

Blood

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3131-3137

  Weerkamp, Floor ^b   Baert, Miranda R M ^b   Brugman, Martijn H ^b   Dik, Willem A ^b   De Haas, Edwin F E ^b   Visser, Trudi P ^b   De Groot, Christianne J M ^b   Wagemaker, Gerard ^b   Van Dongen, Jacques J M ^b   Staal, Frank J T ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; T6 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ERYTHROID CELL; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOID CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; STEM CELL; STROMA CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 33645731202     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-08-3412     Document Type: Article

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