Lineage choices in the developing thymus
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Warren S Pear; LiLi Tu; Paul L Stein
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Article
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2004
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Thymic development proceeds through several defined stages that generate not only ab and gd T cells but can produce dendritic cells and B cells. The earliest thymocytes exist in the CD4 ร CD8 ร double negative compartment within a heterogeneous fraction termed DN1. Recent progress has identified sev