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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Richard Coulson
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-1138 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Pekalski Marcin L ML Ferreira Ricardo C RC Coulson Richard M R RM Cutler Antony J AJ Guo Hui H Smyth Deborah J DJ Downes Kate K Dendrou Calliope A CA Castro Dopico Xaquin X Esposito Laura L Coleman Gillian G Stevens Helen E HE Nutland Sarah S Walker Neil M NM Guy Catherine C Dunger David B DB Wallace Chris C Tree Timothy I M TI Todd John A JA Wicker Linda S LS
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20130215 6
As the thymus involutes with age, the maintenance of peripheral naive T cells in humans becomes strongly dependent on peripheral cell division. However, mechanisms that orchestrate homeostatic division remain unclear. In this study we present evidence that the frequency of naive CD4 T cells that express CD25 (IL-2 receptor α-chain) increases with age on subsets of both CD31(+) and CD31(-) naive CD4 T cells. Analyses of TCR excision circles from sorted subsets indicate that CD25(+) naive CD4 T ce ...[more]