Identification of a Bipotent Epithelial Progenitor Population in the Adult Thymus

Cell Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2819-2832

  Ulyanchenko, Svetlana ^a,b   O'Neill, Kathy E ^a   Medley, Tanya ^a,c   Farley, Alison M ^a,d   Vaidya, Harsh J ^a   Cook, Alistair M ^a,e   Blair, Natalie F ^a,f   Blackburn, C Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PLACENTA PROTEIN; PLET-1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; THYMIC EPITHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; THYMUS; THYMUS FUNCTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELLS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84963829026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.02.080     Document Type: Article

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