LTβR controls thymic portal endothelial cells for haematopoietic progenitor cell homing and T-cell regeneration

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Shi, Yaoyao ^a,b   Wu, Weiwei ^a,b   Chai, Qian ^a   Li, Qingqing ^c   Hou, Yu ^c   Xia, Huan ^a,b   Ren, Boyang ^a,b   Xu, Hairong ^a   Guo, Xiaohuan ^d   Jin, Caiwei ^a,b   Lv, Mengjie ^a,b   Wang, Zhongnan ^a   Fu, Yang Xin ^e   Zhu, Mingzhao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Tsinghua University   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LYMPHOTOXIN BETA RECEPTOR; PADGEM PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; HERPESVIRUS ENTRY MEDIATOR LIGAND; LTBR PROTEIN, MOUSE; TNFSF14 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

BLOOD; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DIFFERENTIATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IRRADIATION; PROTEIN; RODENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HOMING; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIVASCULAR SPACE; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; THYMUS;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HOMEOSTASIS; LYMPHOTOXIN BETA RECEPTOR; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR LIGAND SUPERFAMILY MEMBER 14;

EID: 84981237535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12369     Document Type: Article

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