Premature thymic involution is independent of structural plasticity of the thymic stroma

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1535-1547

  Franckaert, Dean ^a,b   Schlenner, Susan M ^a,b   Heirman, Nathalie ^a,b   Gill, Jason ^c   Skogberg, Gabriel ^d   Ekwall, Olov ^d   Put, Karen ^a,b   Linterman, Michelle A ^e   Dooley, James ^a,b   Liston, Adrian ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FVB N mouse; Involution; Pro T cells; Thymic epithelium cells; Thymus; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC REGULATION; INVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PREMATURE THYMIC INVOLUTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMIC STROMA; THYMUS; THYMUS DISEASE; AGING; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STROMA CELL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84929027825     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: 15214141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201445277     Document Type: Article

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