The Wnt signaling antagonist Kremen1 is required for development of thymic architecture

Clinical and Developmental Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 299-319

  Osada, Masako ^a   Ito, Emi ^a   Fermin, Hector A ^a   Vazquez Cintron, Edwin ^a   Venkatesh, Tadmiri ^a   Friedel, Roland H ^b   Pezzano, Mark ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kremen1; T cell development; Thymic epithelium; Thymic organogenesis; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 5; CYTOKERATIN 8; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; KERATIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DICKKOPF; PROTEIN KREMEN1; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; KRM1 GENE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 33845609951     PISSN: 17402522     EISSN: 10292357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17402520600935097     Document Type: Article

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