Article
NF-κB-inducing kinase contributes to normal development of cortical thymic epithelial cells: its possible role in shaping a proper T-cell repertoire.
Immunology - 1 Jun 2020
Eshima Koji, Misawa Kana, Ohashi Chihiro, Noma Haruka, Iwabuchi Kazuya
Abstract excerpt
Nuclear factor (NF)-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) is known to be a critical regulator of multiple aspects of the immune response. Although the role of NIK in the development of medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) has been well documented, the impact of NIK on the differentiation and function of cortical thymic epithelial cells (cTECs) remains ambiguous. To investigate the possible involvement of NIK in cTEC...
Topics
- Animals
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Cell Differentiation
- Clonal Selection, Antigen-Mediated
- Epithelial Cells
- Female
- Flow Cytometry
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
