Thymic epithelial cell expansion through matricellular protein CYR61 boosts progenitor homing and T-cell output

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Emre, Yalin ^a   Irla, Magali ^a   Dunand Sauthier, Isabelle ^a   Ballet, Romain ^a   Meguenani, Mehdi ^a   Jemelin, Stephane ^a   Vesin, Christian ^a   Reith, Walter ^a   Imhof, Beat A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN 61; CYTOKERATIN 5; CYTOKERATIN 8; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

ADHESION; DISEASE TREATMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PROTEIN; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL HOMING; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS FUNCTION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTEINE-RICH PROTEIN 61; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHA6; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-1; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NUDE; PROTEIN BINDING; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84889262099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3842     Document Type: Article

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