Trafficking to the thymus

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 373, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-111

  Zhang, Shirley L ^a   Bhandoola, Avinash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR9; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTEGRIN; P SELECTIN GLYCOPROTEIN LIGAND 1; PLERIXAFOR; SECONDARY LYMPHOID TISSUE CHEMOKINE; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; THROMBOPOIETIN;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL HOMING; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL REGENERATION; EARLY THYMIC PROGENITOR; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; STEM CELL NICHE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84892774575     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82-2013-324     Document Type: Article

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