Lessons from thymic epithelial heterogeneity: FoxN1 and tissue-restricted gene expression by extrathymic, endodermally derived epithelium

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 5042-5049

  Dooley, James ^a   Erickson, Matthew ^a   Farr, Andrew G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CALCITONIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOXN1; THYROGLOBULIN; TISSUE RESTRICTED ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ENDODERM; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS CYST; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; THYMUS GLAND; THYROGLOBULIN;

EID: 77951088357     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0901371     Document Type: Article

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