Multicongenic fate mapping quantification of dynamics of thymus colonization

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 212, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1589-1601

  Zietara, Natalia ^a   Łyszkiewicz, Marcin ^a   Puchałka, Jacek ^b   Witzlau, Katrin ^a   Reinhardt, Annika ^a   Förster, Reinhold ^a   Pabst, Oliver ^a,c   Prinz, Immo ^a   Krueger, Andreas ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SELECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; MULTICONGENIC FATE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL NICHE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS COLONIZATION; THYMUS SEEDING PROGENITOR NICHE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

CC CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR 9; CCR7 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; IL17R PROTEIN, MOUSE; INTERLEUKIN 17 RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, CCR; RECEPTORS, CCR7; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-17; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84961226113     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20142143     Document Type: Article

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