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Thymosin-alpha1 stimulates maturation of CD34+ stem cells into CD3+4+ cells in an in vitro thymic epithelia organ coculture model.
International journal of immunopharmacology - 1 Jan 1999
Knutsen A P, Freeman J J, Mueller K R, Roodman S T, Bouhasin J D
Abstract excerpt
The effect of thymosin-alpha1 on thymopoiesis is largely unknown. Thymosin is found in the cortical and medullary thymic epithelia, as well as in nurse cells; thus, it is hypothesized that thymosin may affect both early and late stage of thymocyte maturation. In this study, the effect of thymosin-alpha1 on thymopoiesis was determined by coculturing in vitro CD34+ stem cells (SC) with allogeneic cultured thymic...
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