Article
Recent thymic emigrants in the rat express a unique antigenic phenotype and undergo post-thymic maturation in peripheral lymphoid tissues.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Mar 1993
Hosseinzadeh H, Goldschneider I
Abstract excerpt
Studies of the functional properties and developmental potentials of immediate post-thymic cells have been hampered by the lack of reliable markers with which to distinguish recent thymic emigrants (RTE) from the bulk of peripheral T cells. In the present study, the intrathymic FITC-labeling tech...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Surface
- Cell Movement
- Female
- Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate
- Leukocyte Common Antigens
- Lymphoid Tissue
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Lew
- T-Lymphocytes
- Thy-1 Antigens
- Thymus Gland
