Fetal and early post-natal development of the human spleen: From primordial arterial B cell lobules to a non-segmented organ

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 205-215

  Steiniger, Birte ^a   Ulfig, Norbert ^b   Riße, Manfred ^c   Barth, Peter J ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fetal spleen development; Human; Splenic compartments

Indexed keywords

SECONDARY LYMPHOID TISSUE CHEMOKINE;

ARTICLE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; ORGANOGENESIS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ARTERY; STROMA CELL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGENS, CD; ARTERIES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHEMOKINE CCL21; CHEMOKINE CXCL13; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT, NEWBORN; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34548163056     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-007-0296-4     Document Type: Article

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