Thymus-homing precursors and the thymic microenvironment

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 477-484

  Boehm, Thomas ^a   Bleul, Conrad C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; DENDRITIC CELL; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ECTODERM; ENDODERM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC TRAIT; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PARATHYROID GLAND; PRECURSOR; PRIMORDIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; EPITHELIUM; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 33748448909     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2006.08.004     Document Type: Review

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