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Long-term persistence of functional thymic epithelial progenitor cells in vivo under conditions of low FOXN1 expression.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Jin Xin, Nowell Craig S, Ulyanchenko Svetlana, Stenhouse Frances H, Blackburn C Clare
Abstract excerpt
Normal thymus function reflects interactions between developing T-cells and several thymic stroma cell types. Within the stroma, key functions reside in the distinct cortical and medullary thymic epithelial cell (TEC) types. It has been demonstrated that, during organogenesis, all TECs can be derived from a common thymic epithelial progenitor cell (TEPC). The properties of this common progenitor are thus of...
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