Adult thymic epithelium contains nonsenescent label-retaining cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2219-2226

  Dumont Lagacé, Maude ^a,b   Brochu, Sylvie ^a,b   St Pierre, Charles ^a,b   Perreault, Claude ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE H2B; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOXN1; PROTEIN P19ARF; PROTEIN SERPINE1; PROTEIN TRP63; REVERSE TETRACYCLINE CONTROLLED TRANSACTIVATOR; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT4 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; LABEL RETAINING CELL ASSAY; MALE; MEDULLARY THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POSTMITOTIC CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURNOVER TIME;

ANIMALS; CELL AGING; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT4 PROTEIN;

EID: 84896523696     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1302961     Document Type: Article

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