A human thymic epithelial cell culture system for the promotion of lymphopoiesis from hematopoietic stem cells

Experimental Hematology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 570-579

  Beaudette Zlatanova, Britte C ^a   Knight, Katherine L ^a   Zhang, Shubin ^a   Stiff, Patrick J ^a   Ziga Pflcker, Juan Carlos ^b   Le, Phong T ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DELTA LIKE 1 PROTEIN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR ALPHA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; T6 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOID CELL LINE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; THYMOCYTE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; THYMUS GLAND;

MURINAE;

EID: 79955139271     PISSN: 0301472X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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