IL-7 produced by thymic epithelial cells plays a major role in the development of thymocytes and TCRγδ+ intraepithelial lymphocytes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6173-6179

  Shitara, Soichiro ^a   Hara, Takahiro ^a   Liang, Bingfei ^a   Wagatsuma, Keisuke ^a   Zuklys, Saulius ^b   Holländer, Georg A ^b,c   Nakase, Hiroshi ^a   Chiba, Tsutomu ^a   Tani ichi, Shizue ^a   Ikuta, Koichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTERLEUKIN 7; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VILLIN;

ALPHA BETA T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAMMA DELTA T LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMALL INTESTINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS FUNCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-7; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84879111657     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1202573     Document Type: Article

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