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Development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. Effect of interleukin 2

Most fetal thymocytes from 14-d mouse embryos are Thy-1+, L3T4-, Ly-2-, and express the receptor for interleukin 2 (IL-2). The development of thymocytes has been followed in fetal thymus organ cultures. When fetal thymus from 14-d embryos were cultured for a 6-d period, thymocytes increased in numbe...

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Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1987
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2188371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3108443
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description Most fetal thymocytes from 14-d mouse embryos are Thy-1+, L3T4-, Ly-2-, and express the receptor for interleukin 2 (IL-2). The development of thymocytes has been followed in fetal thymus organ cultures. When fetal thymus from 14-d embryos were cultured for a 6-d period, thymocytes increased in number 20-40-fold, and 95% became Thy-1+, L3T4+, Ly-2+. The addition of IL-2 to organ cultures of 14-d fetal thymus inhibited, in a dose-dependent manner, cell proliferation and the appearance of Thy-1+, L3T4+, Ly-2+ thymocytes. The addition of IL-2 also resulted in the appearance of a population of cells that were cytotoxic for syngeneic and allogeneic fetal thymocytes and syngeneic tumour targets. While the events that lead to the expression of the IL-2 receptor on 14- d fetal thymocytes are unknown, IL-2 in fetal thymus organ cultures inhibits the normal maturation of fetal thymocytes and raises the question of whether the cytotoxic cells that appear reflect selection through an alternative pathway of development.
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spelling pubmed-21883712008-04-17 Development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. Effect of interleukin 2 J Exp Med Articles Most fetal thymocytes from 14-d mouse embryos are Thy-1+, L3T4-, Ly-2-, and express the receptor for interleukin 2 (IL-2). The development of thymocytes has been followed in fetal thymus organ cultures. When fetal thymus from 14-d embryos were cultured for a 6-d period, thymocytes increased in number 20-40-fold, and 95% became Thy-1+, L3T4+, Ly-2+. The addition of IL-2 to organ cultures of 14-d fetal thymus inhibited, in a dose-dependent manner, cell proliferation and the appearance of Thy-1+, L3T4+, Ly-2+ thymocytes. The addition of IL-2 also resulted in the appearance of a population of cells that were cytotoxic for syngeneic and allogeneic fetal thymocytes and syngeneic tumour targets. While the events that lead to the expression of the IL-2 receptor on 14- d fetal thymocytes are unknown, IL-2 in fetal thymus organ cultures inhibits the normal maturation of fetal thymocytes and raises the question of whether the cytotoxic cells that appear reflect selection through an alternative pathway of development. The Rockefeller University Press 1987-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2188371/ /pubmed/3108443 Text en This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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Development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. Effect of interleukin 2
title Development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. Effect of interleukin 2
title_full Development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. Effect of interleukin 2
title_fullStr Development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. Effect of interleukin 2
title_full_unstemmed Development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. Effect of interleukin 2
title_short Development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. Effect of interleukin 2
title_sort development of fetal thymocytes in organ cultures. effect of interleukin 2
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2188371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3108443