Thymic Nurse Cells Exhibit Epithelial Progenitor Phenotype and Create Unique Extra-Cytoplasmic Membrane Space for Thymocyte Selection

Thymic nurse cells (TNCs) are epithelial cells in the thymic cortex that contain as many as fifty thymocytes within specialized cytoplasmic vacuoles. The function of this cell-in-cell interaction has created controversy since their discovery in 1980. Further, some skepticism exists about the idea th...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Hendrix, Tonya M., Chilukuri, Rajendra V.E., Martinez, Marcia, Olushoga, Zachariah, Blake, Andrew, Brohi, Moazzam, Walker, Christopher, Samms, Michael, Guyden, Jerry C.
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Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: 2009
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830717/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20035931
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cellimm.2009.11.004
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