Wnt4 regulates thymic cellularity through the expansion of thymic epithelial cells and early thymic progenitors

Blood

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5163-5173

  Heinonen, Krista M ^a,b   Vanegas, Juan Ruiz ^a,b   Brochu, Sylvie ^a   Shan, Jingdong ^c   Vainio, Seppo J ^c   Perreault, Claude ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WNT4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; THYMUS ATROPHY;

EID: 81055126764     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-04-350553     Document Type: Article

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