Thymic cysts originate from Foxn1 positive thymic medullary epithelium

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1106-1113

  Vroegindeweij, Eric ^a,b   Crobach, Stijn ^a,b   Itoi, Manami ^c   Satoh, Rumi ^a   Zuklys, Saulius ^d   Happe, Christiane ^e   Germeraad, Wilfred T V ^f   Cornelissen, Jan J ^b   Cupedo, Tom ^b   Holländer, Georg A ^d   Kawamoto, Hiroshi ^a   van Ewijk, Willem ^a,g  

^a RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Foxn1; Thymic crosstalk; Thymic cysts; Thymic epithelial cells

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMIC MEDULLARY EPITHELIUM; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS CYST;

ANIMALS; CYSTS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPITHELIUM; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; THYMUS GLAND;

MUS;

EID: 74449088939     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2009.10.034     Document Type: Article

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