Cervical thymus in the mouse

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 176, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 6484-6490

  Dooley, James ^a   Erickson, Matthew ^a   Gillard, Geoffrey O ^a   Farr, Andrew G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC TISSUE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; NECK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THORAX; THYMUS;

EID: 33646858664     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.11.6484     Document Type: Article

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