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Abstract
We undertook a kinetic analysis of the generation of mature T cells in TCR and coreceptor transgenic mice using BrdU labeling. We observed that the selection efficiency of mature CD4-CD8+ and CD4+CD8- thymocytes could be as high as 40% and 90% of CD4+CD8+ precursors, respectively. The surprisingly high efficiency of selection favors an instructional model of lineage commitment and is incompatible with a stochastic model in which the efficiency of selection would be no greater than 100% in both lineages combined.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10795736 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80190-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Immunity ISSN: 1074-7613 Impact factor: 31.745