3D immunofluorescence analysis of early thymic morphogenesis and medulla development

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 589-599

  Muñoz, Juan José ^a   Cejalvo, Teresa ^a   Tobajas, Esther ^a   Fanlo, Lucía ^a,b   Cortés, Alfonso ^a   Zapata, Agustín Gregorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Branching morphogenesis; Medulla; Thymic epithelium; Thymus organogenesis

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN 3; CLAUDIN 4; CLDN3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CLDN4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CLAUDIN-3; CLAUDIN-4; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MORPHOGENESIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84929729067     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14670/HH-30.589     Document Type: Article

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