Intercellular protein transfer from thymocytes to thymic epithelial cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Hong Xia ^a,b   Qiu, Yu Rong ^b   Zhong, Xiao Ping ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERCELLULAR PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PURIFYING SELECTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMIC CORTEX; THYMIC MEDULLA; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS EPITHELIUM CELL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEMATOPOIESIS; METABOLISM; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEMATOPOIESIS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; THYMOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84962203759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152641     Document Type: Article

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