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Abstract
A small percentage of normal mouse thymus and spleen lymphocytes form rosettes with autologous erythrocytes. The number of these autologous rosettes increases 15- to 20-fold after adult thymectomy and to a lesser degree with aging. Autologous rosette level is also abnormally high in nude (congenitally athymic) mice. The high level of autologous rosette-forming cells found after adult thymectomy is normalized by injecting ng amounts of purified circulating thymic factor. Autologous rosette-forming cells adhere to nylon, belong to the less dense spleen cells, are in majority steroid-resistant in the thymus. All these properties suggest that autologous rosette-forming cells might belong to immature T-cell (thymic-dependent cell) precursors.Entities:
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Year: 1975 PMID: 1081228 PMCID: PMC432950 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.72.8.3201
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205