Competitive homing assays to study gut-tropic T cell migration

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 49, 2011, Pages

  Villablanca, Eduardo J ^a   Mora, J Rodrigo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemokine; Competitive; Gut tropism; Homing; Immunology; In vivo; Issue 49

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355139526     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2619     Document Type: Article

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