A novel bacterial artificial chromosome-transgenic Podoplanin-Cre mouse targets lymphoid organ stromal cells in vivo

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Onder, Lucas ^a   Scandella, Elke ^a   Chai, Qian ^a   Firner, Sonja ^a   Mayer, Christian T ^b   Sparwasser, Tim ^b   Thiel, Volker ^a   Rülicke, Thomas ^c   Ludewig, Burkhard ^a  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fibroblastic reticular cells; Lymphatic endothelial cells; Podoplanin; Stromal cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874062931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2011.00050     Document Type: Article

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