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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 technique was used in concert with three-color flow-cytometric analysis to identify, phenotypically characterize, and study...
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