Thymic Emigration: When and How T Cells
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Thymocyte emigration is mediated by active movement away from stroma-derived factors.
T cells leave the thymus at a specific time during differentiation and do not return despite elaboration of known T cell chemoattractants by thymic stroma. We observed differentiation stage-restricted egress of thymocytes from an artificial thymus in which vascular structures or hemodynamics could not have been playing a role. Hypothesizing that active movement of cells away from a thymic produ...
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