Characterization of Human Thymic Exosomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Skogberg, Gabriel ^a   Gudmundsdottir, Judith ^a,b   van der Post, Sjoerd ^b   Sandström, Kerstin ^a   Bruhn, Sören ^c   Benson, Mikael ^c   Mincheva Nilsson, Lucia ^d   Baranov, Vladimir ^d   Telemo, Esbjörn ^a   Ekwall, Olov ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE MARKER; MICRORNA;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXOSOME; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL TOLERANCE; EXOSOMES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEOME; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84879747232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067554     Document Type: Article

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