Lineage Tracing and Cell Ablation Identify a Post-Aire-Expressing Thymic Epithelial Cell Population

Cell Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 166-179

  Metzger, Todd C ^a   Khan, Imran S ^a   Gardner, James M ^a,b   Mouchess, Maria L ^a   Johannes, Kellsey P ^a   Krawisz, Anna K ^a   Skrzypczynska, Katarzyna M ^a   Anderson, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; CELL ANTIGEN; RECEPTOR ACTIVATOR OF NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPA B; TISSUE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; THYMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84885854982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.08.038     Document Type: Article

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