Developmentally regulated availability of RANKL and CD40 ligand reveals distinct mechanisms of fetal and adult cross-talk in the thymus medulla

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5519-5526

  Desanti, Guillaume E ^a   Cowan, Jennifer E ^a   Baik, Song ^a   Parnell, Sonia M ^a   White, Andrea J ^a   Penninger, Josef M ^b   Lane, Peter J L ^a   Jenkinson, Eric J ^a   Jenkinson, William E ^a   Anderson, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD40 LIGAND; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD40 LIGAND; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RANK LIGAND; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84871127197     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201815     Document Type: Article

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