Thymic output: a bad TREC record

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作者
Hazenberg, MD [1 ]
Borghans, JAM
de Boer, RJ
Miedema, F
机构
[1] CLB, Dept Clin Viroimmunol, Sanquin Res, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[2] Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Landsteiner Lab, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
[3] Univ Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
[4] Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Dept Human Retrovirol, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
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10.1038/ni0203-97
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R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
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100102 ;
摘要
TREC assays are used to detect recent thymic emigrants and quantitate thymic output. However, the longevity of naive T cells combined with T cell division suggest TREC data should be interpreted with caution.
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