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A model for the origin of TCR-alphabeta+ CD4-CD8- B220+ cells based on high affinity TCR signals.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 May 1999
Mixter P F, Russell J Q, Morrissette G J, Charland C, Aleman-Hoey D, Budd R C
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The origin of TCR-alphabeta+ CD4-CD8- cells is unclear, yet accumulating evidence suggests that they do not represent merely a default pathway of unselected thymocytes. Rather, they arise by active selection as evidenced by their absence in mice lacking expression of class I MHC. TCR-alphabeta+ CD4-CD8- cells also preferentially accumulate in mice lacking expression of Fas/APO-1/CD95 (lpr) or Fas-ligand (gld),...
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