Follicular dendritic cells emerge from ubiquitous perivascular precursors

Cell

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194-206

  Krautler, Nike Julia ^a,b   Kana, Veronika ^a   Kranich, Jan ^a   Tian, Yinghua ^a   Perera, Dushan ^a   Lemm, Doreen ^a   Schwarz, Petra ^a   Armulik, Annika ^a   Browning, Jeffrey L ^c   Tallquist, Michelle ^d   Buch, Thorsten ^e   Oliveira Martins, José B ^a   Zhu, Caihong ^a   Hermann, Mario ^a,e   Wagner, Ulrich ^f   Brink, Robert ^b   Heikenwalder, Mathias ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c BIOGEN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LYMPHOTOXIN; LYMPHOTOXIN BETA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; PRION PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; KIDNEY CAPSULE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN CELL; STROMA CELL;

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EID: 84863632660     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.05.032     Document Type: Article

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