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Growth of epithelial cells in the thymic medulla is under the control of mature T cells

Epithelial cells in the thymic medulla are conspicuous in normal adult mice, but sparse in the early fetal thymus and the thymus of adult T cell-deficient SCID mice. To examine whether growth of medullary epithelial cells (MEC) depends upon local contact with mature T cells, we used the finding that...

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Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2119324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1500862