Alterations of the Medullary Epithelial Compartment in the Aire-Deficient Thymus: Implications for Programs of Thymic Epithelial Differentiation,

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A widely held model of thymic epithelial differentiation is based on patterns of keratin expression, where a K8(+)K5(+) progenitor gives rise to K8(+)K5/K14(-) cortical thymic epithelium (CTEC), and medullary thymic epithelium (MTEC) are K8(-)K5(+)K14(+). The thymic phenotype of p63-deficient mice indicates that p63 is an important regulator of proximal stages of thymic epithelial differentiation. In this study,...

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