Human spleen microanatomy: Why mice do not suffice

Immunology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 334-346

  Steiniger, Birte S ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human spleen; Rat and mouse spleen; Sheathed capillaries; Splenic follicles; Splenic stromal cells

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CAPILLARY; ERYTHROCYTE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE RECIRCULATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STROMA CELL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CELL MOTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CYTOLOGY; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CAPILLARIES; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RATS; SPLEEN;

EID: 84931389354     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: 13652567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imm.12469     Document Type: Article

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