MicroRNAs control the maintenance of thymic epithelia and their competence for T lineage commitment and thymocyte selection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3894-3904

  Zuklys, Saulius ^a   Mayer, Carlos E ^a   Zhanybekova, Saule ^a   Stefanski, Heather E ^b,c   Nusspaumer, Gretel ^a   Gill, Jason ^a   Barthlott, Thomas ^a   Chappaz, Stephane ^a   Nitta, Takeshi ^d   Dooley, James ^e   Nogales Cadenas, Ruben ^f   Takahama, Yousuke ^e   Finke, Daniela ^a   Liston, Adrian ^f   Blazar, Bruce R ^a,b   Pascual Montano, Alberto ^f   Hollände, Georg A ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; THYMOCYTE; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RIBONUCLEASE III; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84867287351     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200783     Document Type: Article

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