A dynamic niche provides Kit ligand in a stage-specific manner to the earliest thymocyte progenitors

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 157-167

  Buono, Mario ^a   Facchini, Raffaella ^a   Matsuoka, Sahoko ^a   Thongjuea, Supat ^a   Waithe, Dominique ^b   Luis, Tiago C ^a   Giustacchini, Alice ^a   Besmer, Peter ^c   Mead, Adam J ^a   Jacobsen, Sten Eirik W ^a   Nerlov, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4- CD8- C KIT+ CD25+ PROGENITOR CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; THYMOCYTE; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTION; COCULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL NICHE; THYMOCYTES;

EID: 84956772709     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb3299     Document Type: Article

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