Post-Aire maturation of thymic medullary epithelial cells involves selective expression of keratinocyte-specific autoantigens

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Xiaoping ^a,d   Laan, Martti ^a   Bichele, Rudolf ^a   Kisand, Kai ^a   Scott, Hamish S ^b,c   Peterson, Pärt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b CENTRE FOR CANCER BIOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Aire; Autoantigen; Central tolerance; Desmoglein; Hassall's corpuscle; Thymic medullary epithelial cells; Thymus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872711825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00019     Document Type: Article

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