Cytokine crosstalk for thymic medulla formation

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 190-197

  Nitta, Takeshi ^a   Ohigashi, Izumi ^a   Nakagawa, Yasushi ^a   Takahama, Yousuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 LIGAND; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; CYTOKINE; LYMPHOTOXIN; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; MEDULLARY THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS MEDULLA DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 79953083485     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2010.12.002     Document Type: Review

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