Intravital Imaging of Thymopoiesis Reveals Dynamic Lympho-Epithelial Interactions

Immunity

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 298-309

  Hess, Isabell ^a   Boehm, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL HOMING; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULUM CELL; THYMOCYTE; THYMOPOIESIS; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOOD CIRCULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPITHELIUM; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84857440796     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.12.016     Document Type: Article

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