Global transcriptional profiling reveals distinct functions of thymic stromal subsets and age-related changes during thymic involution

Cell Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 402-415

  Ki, Sanghee ^a   Park, Daechan ^a   Selden, Hilary J ^a   Seita, Jun ^b   Chung, Haewon ^a   Kim, Jonghwan ^a   Iyer, Vishwanath R ^a   Ehrlich, Lauren I R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B7 ANTIGEN; CD86 ANTIGEN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 20; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 6; CYCLIN A2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F3;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DOWN REGULATION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INVOLUTION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

AGING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; STROMAL CELLS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84907963337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.08.070     Document Type: Article

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