Thymopoiesis in mice depends on a Foxn1-positive thymic epithelial cell lineage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 38, 2010, Pages 16613-16618

  Corbeaux, Tatiana ^a   Hess, Isabell ^a   Swann, Jeremy B ^a   Kanzler, Benoît ^a   Haas Assenbaum, Annette ^a   Boehm, Thomas ^a  

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

Author keywords

Epithelium; Mouse; Progenitor cell; Thymus

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN FOXN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PRIMER DNA; WHN PROTEIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL REGENERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMUS; THYMUS APLASIA; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 78049276268     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004623107     Document Type: Article

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