Aire-expressing thymic medullary epithelial cells originate from β5t-expressing progenitor cells

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

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9885-9890

  Ohigashi, Izumi ^a   Zuklys, Saulius ^b   Sakata, Mie ^a   Mayer, Carlos E ^b   Zhanybekova, Saule ^b   Murata, Shigeo ^c   Tanaka, Keiji ^d   Holländer, Georg A ^b,e   Takahama, Yousuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA5T PROTEIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; PROTEASOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDODERM; EPITHELIUM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; THYMIC MEDULLARY EPITHELIAL CELL;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 84878995483     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301799110     Document Type: Article

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