Transcriptome sequencing of neonatal thymic epithelial cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  St Pierre, Charles ^a,b   Brochu, Sylvie ^a,b   Vanegas, Juan Ruiz ^a,b   Dumont Lagacé, Maude ^a,b   Lemieux, Sébastien ^a,c   Perreault, Claude ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEWBORN; SKIN; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84878730343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01860     Document Type: Article

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