Article
Thymus formation in uncharted embryonic territories
2022-03-11
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The thymus is a conserved organ among vertebrates, derived from the endoderm of distinct pharyngeal pouches (PP), whose location and number vary across species. Together with reports of sporadic ectopic thymus locations in mice and humans, this suggests that the potential to make a thymus resides in a broader region of the PP endoderm than previously ascribed. Using the chick-quail chimera syste...
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- Literature Corpus work
- da9041fb-bd49-5882-9cdd-d39753a8cfe7
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.03.09.483697
