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Transforming growth factor-beta2 is involved in quantitative genetic variation in thymic involution.
Blood - 1 Mar 2006
Kumar Ritu, Langer Jessica C, Snoeck Hans-Willem
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms regulating thymic involution are unclear. In inbred mouse strains the rate of thymic involution and the function of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) compartment are subject to quantitative genetic variation. We have shown previously that transforming growth factor-beta2 (TGF-beta2) is a genetically determined positive regulator of HSCs. Here, we demonstrate that genetic variation in the rate of...
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