Maturation and Emigration of Single-Positive Thymocytes

T lymphopoiesis in the thymus was thought to be completed once it reaches the single positive (SP) stage, a stage when T cells are “fully mature” and waiting to be exported at random or follow a “first-in-first-out” manner. Recent evidence, however, has revealed that the newly generated SP thymocyte...

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Main Authors: Xu, Xi, Zhang, Shusong, Li, Pingping, Lu, Jin, Xuan, Qun, Ge, Qing
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3804360/