Humanized hemato-lymphoid system mice

Haematologica

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-19

  Theocharides, Alexandre P A ^a   Rongvaux, Anthony ^b   Fritsch, Kristin ^a   Flavell, Richard A ^b   Manz, Markus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD47 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DECTIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 3; STEM CELL FACTOR; THROMBOPOIETIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SCID MOUSE; THYMUS; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICE, SCID; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84952945434     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2014.115212     Document Type: Article

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