Adult Thymic Medullary Epithelium Is Maintained and Regenerated by Lineage-Restricted Cells Rather Than Bipotent Progenitors

Cell Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1432-1443

  Ohigashi, Izumi ^a   Zuklys, Saulius ^b,c   Sakata, Mie ^a   Mayer, Carlos E ^b,c   Hamazaki, Yoko ^d   Minato, Nagahiro ^d   Hollander, Georg A ^b,c,e   Takahama, Yousuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 3;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MEDULLARY THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENE; ADULT STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRACKING; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; THYMUS;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL TRACKING; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; REGENERATION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84947347108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.10.012     Document Type: Article

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