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How Many Thymocytes Audition for Selection?

T cell maturation requires the rearrangement of clonotypic T cell receptors (TCR) capable of interacting with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) ligands to initiate positive and negative selection. Only 3–5% of thymocytes mature to join the peripheral T cell pool. To investigate the basis for th...

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Autores principales: Merkenschlager, Matthias, Graf, Daniel, Lovatt, Matthew, Bommhardt, Ursula, Zamoyska, Rose, Fisher, Amanda G.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2199071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9314563