Clonal analysis reveals uniformity in the molecular profile and lineage potential of CCR9+and CCR9- thymus-settling progenitors

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5227-5235

  Desanti, Guillaume E ^a   Jenkinson, William E ^a   Parnell, Sonia M ^a   Boudil, Amine ^b   Gautreau Rolland, Laetitia ^b   Eksteen, Bertus ^a   Ezine, Sophie ^b   Lane, Peter J L ^a   Jenkinson, Eric J ^a   Anderson, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE CCL25; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SEPARATION; CLONE CELLS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELLS; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRODISSECTION; RECEPTORS, CCR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 79955548862     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1002686     Document Type: Article

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