Spatial (Tbata) expression in mature medullary thymic epithelial cells

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 530-538

  Saade, Murielle ^a,b   Irla, Magali ^c   Yammine, Miriam ^a   Boulanger, Nicolas ^a   Victorero, Geneviève ^a   Vincentelli, Renaud ^d   Penninger, Josef M ^e   Holländer, Georg A ^f   Chauvet, Sophie ^g   Nguyen, Catherine ^a  

^a Aix Marseille university   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^g AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Aire; Epithelial cells; Spatial; Thymic ontogeny

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; STROMAL PROTEIN ASSOCIATED WITH THYMII AND LYMPH NODE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RANK LIGAND; RECEPTOR ACTIVATOR OF NUCLEAR FACTOR-KAPPA B; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 75149113242     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200939605     Document Type: Article

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