Composition and characteristics of distinct macrophage subpopulations in the mouse thymus

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1850-1854

  Liu, Lan Tao ^a,b   Lang, Zhi Fang ^b   Li, Ying ^a   Zhu, Yong Jie ^a   Zhang, Jiu Tao ^b   Guo, Shang Fu ^b   Wang, Ji Xi ^a   Wang, Hong Wei ^b   Xu, Yu Dong ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MUDANJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Macrophage; Monoclonal antibody; Subpopulation; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD68; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY F4 80; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY MAC 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GALECTIN 3; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHAGOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84877251074     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2013.1448     Document Type: Article

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