Foxn1 maintains thymic epithelial cells to support T-cell development via mcm2 in zebrafish

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 51, 2012, Pages 21040-21045

  Ma, Dongyuan ^a   Wang, Lu ^a   Wang, Sifeng ^a   Gao, Ya ^a   Wei, Yonglong ^a   Liu, Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84871366210     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217021110     Document Type: Article

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