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SUBMITTER: Dejbakhsh-Jones S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC34690 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dejbakhsh-Jones S S Garcia-Ojeda M E ME Chatterjea-Matthes D D Zeng D D Strober S S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20010605 13
We searched for clonable committed T cell progenitors in the adult mouse bone marrow and isolated rare (approximately 0.05%) cells with the Thy-1hiCD2-CD16+CD44hiCD25-Lin- phenotype. In vivo experiments showed that these cells were progenitors committed only to reconstituting the T cell lineage of irradiated Ly5 congenic hosts. Reconstitution of the thymus was minimal compared with that of the bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes. At limiting dilutions, donor T cell reconstitution of the spleen ...[more]