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Proliferative arrest and rapid turnover of thymic epithelial cells expressing Aire.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 29 Oct 2007
Gray Daniel, Abramson Jakub, Benoist Christophe, Mathis Diane
Abstract excerpt
Expression of autoimmune regulator (Aire) by thymic medullary epithelial cells (MECs) is critical for central tolerance of self. To explore the mechanism by which such a rare cell population imposes tolerance on the large repertoire of differentiating thymocytes, we examined the proliferation and turnover of Aire(+) and Aire(-) MEC subsets through flow cytometric analysis of 5-bromo-2'deoxyuridine (BrdU)...
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