Identification of IL-7-producing cells in primary and secondary lymphoid organs using IL-7-GFP knock-in mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1577-1584

  Hara, Takahiro ^a   Shitara, Soichiro ^a   Imai, Kumiko ^a   Miyachi, Hitoshi ^a   Kitano, Satsuki ^a   Yao, Hisayuki ^a,b   Tani ichi, Shizue ^a   Ikuta, Koichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; DEXTRAN SULFATE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 17; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ACUTE COLITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; LYMPH NODE CELL; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETICULUM CELL; THYMOCYTE; TISSUE SECTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; COLITIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84864808073     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200586     Document Type: Article

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